Cannot open new Jupyter Notebook [Permission Denied]

penguin_pam

I have installed Jupyter Notebook on ubuntu 16.04 using pip3. I can execute jupyter notebook command. It opens and shows a list of current path directories. But I cannot create a new notebook( Python3 ). It says Unexpected error while saving file: Deep Learning/NN/Untitled.ipynb [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/ubuntu/.local/share/jupyter/notebook_secret'

Originally asked by CodeNinja101 on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

change the ownership of the ~/.local/share/jupyter directory from root to user . sudo chown -R user:user ~/.local/share/jupyter see here: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/8997 The first user before the colon is your username, the second user after the colon is your group. If you get chown: [user]: illegal group name , find your group with groups , or specify no group with sudo chown user: ~/.local/share/jupyter . EDIT : Added -R option in comments to the answer. You have to change ownership of all files inside this directory (or inside ~/.jupyter/ , wherever it gives you PermissionError) to your user to make it work. If this fails, change the ownership of the directory you want to...

Full answer by Ganesh Pandey: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/46272924 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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