How to use files/subdirectories that are not in your main working directory [Solved]

[joybhalla]

I have a SRGAN model that I need to train, and for which I am using a VGG model.
The problem is that the vgg file is of 549mb and the virtual environment that I've used for developing is of 1.8G, and I can' t use a directory for training as the directory limit is 100MiB.
How can I use these directories(either by hosting them on floydhub or calling them from a different local directory)?

[redeipirati]

Hi @joybhalla,

Here's what we usually recommend in this scenario:

1. First of all, upload the dataset & model's weights (in your case the vgg file) as FloydHub dataset
2. Initialize your main working directory as FloydHub local project folder with floyd init <username>/<project_name>.
3. Edit the .floydignore file properly by excluding the dataset and weights folders
4. Launch your job and attach to it the data you uploaded to FloydHub.

Hope that helps.

[joybhalla]

@redeipirati, thank you. It worked!