Hey all,

I have a question that might have been asked before but I can't find an answer on this slack channel or the Github so I hope somebody can help me. I have created a dataset via the python SDK with a local path as the output URI like so:

dataset = Dataset.create(
dataset_name="TestLocalDataSet",
dataset_project="Test",
output_uri="D:\\ClearML",
description="Test to see if previews are viewable from webui."
)

I've added some test images and finalized the dataset. Everything works fine up onto this point but the webUI is not able to show the preview images of the dataset (see image). It shows the same behaviour whether the server is self-hosted or hosted by ClearML.

If I click on the image in the webUI I can copy the link to the image. This is a link in the format of: file://<local_filepath_to_image>. If I paste this in a new tab in my browser it is able to show me the images without problems.

I can't figure out why the webUI can't access these files while I can access them easily with the browser or file-explorer. For clarification, the output_uri path points to a local drive on my computer but it has the same problem on network drives. Anybody who's run into the same or a similar problem and knows how to solve this?