# Ray unable to find worker.py due to spaces in filepath - Windows
**URL:** https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591
**Category:** Ray Core
**Created:** [March 2, 2023, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591 "2023-03-02T07:34:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@ShawnH91](https://discuss.ray.io/u/ShawnH91)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2023, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/1 "2023-03-02T07:34:08Z")
- High: It blocks me to complete my task.
When calling tune.run() I get the following warning.
(raylet) Path\Python\Python310\python.exe: can’t open file ‘Path with spaces’\venv\lib\site-packages\ray\_private\workers\default\_worker.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
(raylet) [2023-03-02 18:30:01,992 E 124388 36360] (raylet.exe) worker\_pool.cc:525: Some workers of the worker process(130296) have not registered within the timeout. The process is dead, probably it crashed during start.
It is treating each space as a new folder. I am using Ray 2.3.0 and Pycharm 2022.2.3
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? (if you need more information please let me know)
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### Author:  [@Magnus\_Muller](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Magnus_Muller)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/2 "2023-03-04T16:22:11Z")
I face the same issue, every thing worked until now fine
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### Author:  [@Huaiwei\_Sun](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Huaiwei_Sun)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/3 "2023-03-04T19:11:21Z")
cc: @justinvyu @matthewdeng for thoughts.
@ShawnH91 could you modify the category to “Ray AIR”? This topic is a better fit there.
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### Author:  [@ShawnH91](https://discuss.ray.io/u/ShawnH91)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/4 "2023-03-06T03:29:44Z")
@Huaiwei_Sun I can’t seem to work out how to change the category, do I just need to recreate it in the right category and then delete this?
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### Author:  [@Huaiwei\_Sun](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Huaiwei_Sun)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/5 "2023-03-06T05:24:07Z")
This is how I change the category of my post
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### Author:  [@Magnus\_Muller](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Magnus_Muller)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/6 "2023-03-06T07:50:54Z")
Reproduction script
```auto
from ray import tune
from ray.rllib.algorithms.ppo import PPOConfig
ppo_config = (PPOConfig().framework("torch").environment("CartPole-v0"))
tuner = tune.Tuner(
"PPO",
param_space=ppo_config.to_dict(),
)
tuner.fit()
```
Windows 11
Python 3.10.9
Gymnasium 0.26.3
ray 2.3.0
torch-scatter torch-sparse torch-geometric -f [https://data.pyg.org/whl/torch-1.13.1+cu117.html](https://data.pyg.org/whl/torch-1.13.1+cu117.html)
torch==1.13.1+cu117 -f [https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch\_stable.html](https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html)
Error:
```auto
(raylet) C:\Users\Magnus Mueller\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\\Users\\Magnus\\ Mueller\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python310\\lib\\site-packages\\ray\\_private\\workers\\default_worker.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
```
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### Author:  [@ShawnH91](https://discuss.ray.io/u/ShawnH91)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/7 "2023-03-06T20:15:32Z")
I don’t have an edit option displaying when I open this topic.
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### Author:  [@matthewdeng](https://discuss.ray.io/u/matthewdeng)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/8 "2023-03-06T21:14:47Z")
Hey @ShawnH91, can you share what `‘Path with spaces’` is?
**Edit:** Oh, I see what you mean, it’s the directory that contains `env/`.
Can you try reproducing this with a simpler script? I think this may be a Ray Core issue.
```python
import ray
ray.init()
@ray.remote
def f():
return 1
ray.get(f.remote())
```
Also, could you share the full trace where it fails?
cc @jjyao
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### Author:  [@sven1977](https://discuss.ray.io/u/sven1977)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/9 "2023-03-08T07:48:51Z")
Hey @Magnus_Muller , could it just be that one of your directories contains a space?
It’s trying to find “…\Magnus\ Mueller…” possibly thinking that " Mueller" is a subdir under “Magnus”. I’m not sure either, but on my Win PC, the repro script (thanks for providing this btw!) works fine.
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### Author:  [@Magnus\_Muller](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Magnus_Muller)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/10 "2023-03-08T11:16:29Z")
You are absolutely right.
The problem is, that my username has a space (That’s just possible on Windows), and I do not have the permissions to change that. So maybe we could escape spaces in the path correctly.
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### Author:  [@Alexander\_Limonov](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Alexander_Limonov)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2023, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/11 "2023-04-25T08:58:14Z")
I am having the same issue here. The problem is that I have a space in one of the folders in the path. Is there any update on this?
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### Author:  [@Ammar\_Hafeez](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Ammar_Hafeez)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/12 "2023-06-22T10:45:43Z")
I am having the same issue here. The problem is that I have a space in one of the folders in the path. Is there any update on this?
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### Author:  [@mirajull](https://discuss.ray.io/u/mirajull)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/13 "2023-11-14T08:02:59Z")
I could fix this issue by commenting out the following line from ray\_private\runtime\_env\context.py
passthrough\_args = [s.replace(" “, r”\ ") for s in passthrough\_args]
(line 70 for ray 2.6.3)
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### Author:  [@mirajull](https://discuss.ray.io/u/mirajull)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-unable-to-find-worker-py-due-to-spaces-in-filepath-windows/9591/14 "2023-11-14T08:03:59Z")
You can follow my comment