# Access CSV from Azure Data Storage getting error

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**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/access-csv-from-azure-data-storage-getting-error/1073 "2022-07-05T10:06:56Z")\
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root\_directory = “abfss://greate@adfgreate.dfs.core.windows.net/moviesDB.csv”  
data\_context\_config = DataContextConfig(  
store\_backend\_defaults=FilesystemStoreBackendDefaults(  
root\_directory=root\_directory  
),  
)

* * *

context = BaseDataContext(project\_config=data\_context\_config)  
df = spark.read.format(“csv”)  
.option(“header”, “true”)  
.option(“inferSchema”, “true”)  
.option(“delimiter”,“,”)  
.load(root\_directory)

* * *

ERROR

ValueError: root\_directory must be an absolute path. Got abfss://greate@adfgreate.dfs.core.windows.net/moviesDB.csv instead.