# Problems using Jupyter notebook

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/problems-using-jupyter-notebook/38722>\
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**Created:** [June 20, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/problems-using-jupyter-notebook/38722 "2026-06-20T14:09:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![teekay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@teekay](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/teekay)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/problems-using-jupyter-notebook/38722/1 "2026-06-20T14:09:23Z")

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hi everyone,

please I am having a problem using my Jupiter notebook with my Mac.

1-I cant submit my assignment on the website because my Mac keeps downloading empty files.

2- I cant import dataset because my Mac would not copy the path correctly.

this is the error code:

```auto
FileNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[6], line 1
----> 1 data = pd.read_csv("C:Users/tokaaya/Documents/world_population.csv")
      2 data

File /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py:1026, in read_csv(filepath_or_buffer, sep, delimiter, header, names, index_col, usecols, dtype, engine, converters, true_values, false_values, skipinitialspace, skiprows, skipfooter, nrows, na_values, keep_default_na, na_filter, verbose, skip_blank_lines, parse_dates, infer_datetime_format, keep_date_col, date_parser, date_format, dayfirst, cache_dates, iterator, chunksize, compression, thousands, decimal, lineterminator, quotechar, quoting, doublequote, escapechar, comment, encoding, encoding_errors, dialect, on_bad_lines, delim_whitespace, low_memory, memory_map, float_precision, storage_options, dtype_backend)
   1013 kwds_defaults = _refine_defaults_read(
   1014 dialect,
   1015 delimiter,
   (...) 1022 dtype_backend=dtype_backend,
   1023 )
   1024 kwds.update(kwds_defaults)
-> 1026 return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)

File /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py:620, in _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    617 _validate_names(kwds.get("names", None))
    619 # Create the parser.
--> 620 parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
    622 if chunksize or iterator:
    623 return parser

File /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py:1620, in TextFileReader. __init__ (self, f, engine, **kwds)
   1617 self.options["has_index_names"] = kwds["has_index_names"]
   1619 self.handles: IOHandles | None = None
-> 1620 self._engine = self._make_engine(f, self.engine)

File /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py:1880, in TextFileReader._make_engine(self, f, engine)
   1878 if "b" not in mode:
   1879 mode += "b"
-> 1880 self.handles = get_handle(
   1881 f,
   1882 mode,
   1883 encoding=self.options.get("encoding", None),
   1884 compression=self.options.get("compression", None),
   1885 memory_map=self.options.get("memory_map", False),
   1886 is_text=is_text,
   1887 errors=self.options.get("encoding_errors", "strict"),
   1888 storage_options=self.options.get("storage_options", None),
   1889 )
   1890 assert self.handles is not None
   1891 f = self.handles.handle

File /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pandas/io/common.py:873, in get_handle(path_or_buf, mode, encoding, compression, memory_map, is_text, errors, storage_options)
    868 elif isinstance(handle, str):
    869 # Check whether the filename is to be opened in binary mode.
    870 # Binary mode does not support 'encoding' and 'newline'.
    871 if ioargs.encoding and "b" not in ioargs.mode:
    872 # Encoding
--> 873 handle = open(
    874 handle,
    875 ioargs.mode,
    876 encoding=ioargs.encoding,
    877 errors=errors,
    878 newline="",
    879 )
    880 else:
    881 # Binary mode
    882 handle = open(handle, ioargs.mode)

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:Users/tokaaya/Documents/world_population.csv'

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3- it only copy’s and paste’s cells.

please help, I am new to coding

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**Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/problems-using-jupyter-notebook/38722/2 "2026-06-21T15:44:41Z")

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> [@teekay](#):
>
> `1 data = pd.read_csv("C:Users/tokaaya/Documents/world_population.csv")`

That path is a Windows-like path and you are saying you are using a Mac.  
Macs don’t have a drive letter system like `C`-drive.  
(Even for a Windows-based machine that path wouldn’t be correct.)

An easier way to do things is to put your files in the same location as your `.ipynb` file and then just put the file name in the `read` statement.

From what I can tell, these problems are not particular to Jupyter. (I think.) You’d have issues if you were running Python more traditionally on a command line or in a console. So look around how to use Python to read files on a Mac.