Deeplabcut: Can not create training dataset - FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] (path length on windows...)

[jennymsmith94]

Windows 10 Pro with an Anaconda Env and DeepLabCut 2.0.4

After labeling frames, I am unable to create the training dataset and the following error is output.
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

Upon entering the following command:
deeplabcut.create_training_dataset(path_config_file,num_shuffles=1)

This is the output I receive from python:

**File "", line 1, in
deeplabcut.create_training_dataset(path_config_file,num_shuffles=1)

File "C:\Users\PfeifferLab\Anaconda3\envs\deeplabEnv\lib\site-packages\deeplabcut\generate_training_dataset\trainingsetmanipulation.py", line 1079, in create_training_dataset
auxiliaryfunctions.SaveMetadata(os.path.join(project_path,metadatafilename),data, trainIndexes, testIndexes, trainFraction)

File "C:\Users\PfeifferLab\Anaconda3\envs\deeplabEnv\lib\site-packages\deeplabcut\utils\auxiliaryfunctions.py", line 165, in SaveMetadata
with open(metadatafilename, 'wb') as f:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\Users\PfeifferLab\Anaconda3\envs\deeplabEnv\Lib\site-packages\deeplabcut\KcConditional-HCandSI-DC-Lilyana-2019-02-11\training-datasets\iteration-0\UnaugmentedDataSet_KcConditional-HCandSI-DCFeb11\Documentation_data-KcConditional-HCandSI-DC_95shuffle1.pickle'**

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[MMathisLab]

It is likely related to this: #196 - Also I wouldn't recommend making your projects inside the site-packages; I would move this folder to somewhere like Documents. You can just change the project_path inside the config_file after you move it.

[jennymsmith94]

Great, thank you! This fixed the problem.

[AlexEMG]

This path-length issue on windows is quite funny. and not something one would expect...