Where does Auto-GPT save its files?

[MattLCE]

It looks like I successfully saved a txt file with jokes about holidays. But I can't find the file on my computer. It's not in the outputs folder, not on the desktop, it doesn't show up in search.

[jadeowaowa]

check the auto_gpt_workspace folder.

[Drommer-Kille]

I have now had AutoGPT to code for hours and it has not generated the workspace folder. Nothing has appeared to the HD while it claims it's been testing the code for a while. Maybe it's just hallusinating and eating my api tokens.

[vissequ]

Were you very specific about how it should record the data, when, and where?

[echinelli]

It's still not working! Many people are unable to locate the output in the workspace folder

[ShriekinNinja]

It's in docker-compose
replace this line:
- ./auto_gpt_workspace:/app/autogpt/auto_gpt_workspace
with this:
- ./auto_gpt_workspace:/app/autogpt/workspace/auto_gpt_workspace

[PhiloMeister]

Solved, Thank you !

[Mirabilis1729]

You would think outputs would be the obvious place but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[Jenner-Brandon]

At least you got something, mine promises it made a file but it never did under workspaces. Also running on a Mac. I have tired 2 instances, one saved in downloads and one under my users profile Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[Khnaz35]

If you are using a stable release, it should be outside of the workspace directory.

[Stunspot]

I have been going NUTS because of this. It keeps working in these subdirectories under its workspace except I never see a danged thing written out there, let alone a directory structure. And then there's the fact that the outputs and workspace directories keep getting set to Read Only and something is wrong. I have yet to see it complete a single task properly, though it keeps claiming to. Ok, revolutionary free product, I get it, but this thing costs money to run. We can at least expect that it can tell when it's really writing to disk or not! Is this some kind of virtual environment shenanigans? Can we just give the danged thing access to the rest of our hard drive?

[BetterThanLife47]

On Windows it's outputting its files to auto-gpt-workspace for me. The file it said it has created is there.

[d3fc0n2008]

Can someone help me here --I found the file it created. I asked it to give me 10 stable diffusion prompts and when I opened the text document - it was blank. How do I fix this?

[GTrialonis]

I saw that all of Auto-GPT responses were saved into a file, AutoGpt.json. If this file does not exist in your project folder, you need to create it under folder autogpt. I guess the contents of the .json file should then be formatted (made readable or pretified).

[BenGost]

Hello,
I have almost the same problem.
The only way I got files was to ask him.

For example :

"Make me a web page with write helloword and save it in tmp/ folder"

the program will save the files in a folder named tmp which is located in the auto_gpt_workspace folder
Maybe there is another solution?

[vissequ]

It doesn't understand the path. I'm not sure exactly how to get it to do that. When I refer to its root folder, it seems to understand, so it may be easiest to just have it create a new folder called "tmp" inside of the auto_gpt_workspace.

[ratdog19336]

Same question.. also on mac silicon. Can't find the output and was working on it for hours yesterday. Infuriating since you end up looping the AI and it keeps believing it is working. Got it to update a readme text file but was so late and blended with so many other tries that it's completely incomprehensible how it did it

[BenGost]

I realized that sometimes AI does not make code. You have to be more specific. Otherwise she just talks

[ratdog19336]

Haha - it just keeps looping saying the CLI command for creating a file "touch" says it does it and then tries to get back to doing the other job. Then loop it back and tell it it didn't create it and start the comedy all over again. Also no workplace folder or tmp folder. Maybe its a mac thing but that would be weird.

[BenGost]

If you want to get a file, you have to ask him.
You can also specify in which folder it should write

[BenGost]

I recommend running it in a virtual machine. It is able to install programs. He even edited his conf file..

[hashratez]

For Linux (Ubuntu) it is saved here: /home/user/Auto-GPT/autogpt/auto_gpt_workspace

Not in the output folder it creates during install where you would think you would naturally look... LOL.

[JoeJoeno]

I am in a mac using Visual code. Was having the same issue. Thanks to Kgmanager I went into the .env file and changed execute local commands=True . Now I tell the prompt to save files to auto_gpt_workspace and it worked!

[vissequ]

Does this give it root access? Or what exactly does it do?

[btiknas]

I just saw that it now created beside of the folder autogpt > auto_gpt_workspace also another folder directly in main folder called auto_gpt_workspace. See screenshot.
This could be one of the reasons, why it sometimes finds a file on the system and why it cant.

Would be good to have a documentation, how auto-gpt works on Windows / Linux / Mac with regards to creation / reading / changing of files. Explanation like how the formatting should be to find the folder or if admin rights are needed. the current readme needs to be extended.

[Izvirnik]

All outputs I've got were in "auto_gpt_workspace" folder. But it only provided one, when there wasn't much to write. I'm unsure why. But in the same task, same string of events, he saved some of the short "notes" but when bigger output was necessary, it was nowhere to be found.

[MeleeMech]

The workspace folder has moved recently after a Git Pull fyi. Mine now sits in the Auto-GPT folder.
Be sure that EXECUTE_LOCAL_COMMANDS=True in .env file:

EXECUTE_LOCAL_COMMANDS - Allow local command execution (Example: False)

EXECUTE_LOCAL_COMMANDS=True

[GlobalGridTelecom]

I have set the flag mentioned above to TRUE. I asked the Auto-GPT create and save a python file. I then asked it to list the results of a task to a text file. It wrote an empty file and no .py files. This is exercise #6 without success

[Lminor-hub]

I am having the same issue. It created two files on the auto_gpt_workspace folder but they just have the goal written on them, No research, no answer. But I also found the script under Logs>Activity file. I expected to have a nicely organized document with research, urls etc, Am disappointed.

[d3fc0n2008]

I am having this exact same issue. The goal is at the top of the txt file but then nothing else is written to the document. Its driving me crazy and I can't figure out how to fix this

[gmy77]

Same here under windows, all work perfectly... only:

Auto-Gpt.json file requested and created by me manually containing zero at first, now, i used for only 5 seconds then i stop and i find this contains the same of "env" but differences... certain commands/options added at first, but changed, then in Auto-Gpt.json not find. Then i try to copy the actually used working "env" to Auto-Gpt.json... but i find the same message... about this file not exist||find

And now, the --allow-downloads option not change... not find the actual position if exist of anything downloaded...

Under Windows 11, inside "users" directory, all under "administration privileges"

[saintredog]

I'm not sure when using Docker, but without docker, it's in the autogpt/auto_gpt_workspace

I couldn't find where to see the workspace using Docker

[ferisjuan]

I had the same issue. To fix it I created the docker-compose.yml with its configuration (I'm using the config from the setup) and then run the build command and run:

docker-compose build auto-gpt
docker-compose -rm auto-gpt

You'll have to run the build every time you change the docker-compose.yml

[asantos-422]

Just tried this solution on mac intel, received an error code docker-compose build auto-gpt

[TheBoysProject]

I'm going crazy :) can someone explain to me where to find the folder '/app/autogpt/auto_gpt_workspace'?
run with docker win 11
EXECUTE_LOCAL_COMMANDS=True in .env file

autogpt saved some files .txt but I can't find where

[Disarray1]

its inside the container. Use the command docker exec -it (container name or number) /bin/bash
without the ( )

[MrLindeman]

I'm running in Docker and my files get saved inside the Docker container in /app/autogpt/auto_gpt_workspace

Running Auto-GPT 0.3.1

[Wladastic]

closing as already answered :)