# Launching Notebook instead opens a file tree

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/launching-notebook-instead-opens-a-file-tree/6795>\
**Category:** Notebook\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/launching-notebook-instead-opens-a-file-tree/6795 "2020-11-17T23:17:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Trent](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Trent)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/launching-notebook-instead-opens-a-file-tree/6795/1 "2020-11-17T23:17:59Z")

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I’m on Debian 10.

Executing “jupyter notebook” in the terminal shows:

```
[I 16:53:42.095 NotebookApp] Writing notebook server cookie secret to /home/trent/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/notebook_cookie_secret
[I 16:53:44.182 NotebookApp] JupyterLab extension loaded from /home/trent/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jupyterlab
[I 16:53:44.182 NotebookApp] JupyterLab application directory is /home/trent/anaconda3/share/jupyter/lab
[I 16:53:44.187 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /home/trent
[I 16:53:44.187 NotebookApp] Jupyter Notebook 6.1.4 is running at:
[I 16:53:44.187 NotebookApp] http://localhost:8888/?token=9c80e513ef0c89db2a0eaf53e2833d4daa1e2483742044e1
[I 16:53:44.187 NotebookApp] or http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=9c80e513ef0c89db2a0eaf53e2833d4daa1e2483742044e1
[I 16:53:44.188 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).

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Then the browser is directed to open the page, but instead of Notebook, I am getting a directory listing of my Home directory.

 ![Screenshot from 2020-11-17 17-17-22](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/7/7ee0acea94566d740c64a5496088c819052d3120.png)

What’s going on with this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/launching-notebook-instead-opens-a-file-tree/6795/2 "2020-11-18T02:31:49Z")

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That is the Jupyter notebook dashboard and corresponds to one of the lines you included:

```nohighlight
Serving notebooks from local directory: /home/trent

```

If you already had a notebook `.ipynb` file in that directory, you could click on the file name in the list and it would open.  
Otherwise, you can open a new notebook using the `New` button on the right.  
If you have a notebook`.ipynb` file in your user file hierarchy somewhere, you can navigate to it via the file tree in the dashboard and open it. Alternatively, you can move it to where you are.

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**Author:** ![Trent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Trent](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Trent)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/launching-notebook-instead-opens-a-file-tree/6795/3 "2020-11-18T03:21:49Z")

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Thanks for the assist in me getting started, I was looking over something on getting started, and they were showing an image of what I have now after clicking “new.”

Thanks for your time.