Hi, I coded an assistant that receives a file, uploads it, and retrieves content from the file. It worked fairly well, but it stopped working since this morning. I don’t think I made major modifications to my code, so I wonder if you have any clue ? Here is my code (file was already loaded): fro…

I had a similar problem but at higer level, i didn’t try to retrieve content by code. The assistant response today is alwasy something like this: The manual you requested a summary of is not accessible through my system. When I attempted to open the file using the provided ID, I encountered an er…

I confirm that, same problem: ERROR 2024-01-05 12:51:10,260 Error code: 400 - {'error': {'message': 'Not allowed to download files of purpose: assistants', 'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'param': None, 'code': None}}

The code you’re using is using the files API to retrieve file content of a file marked with purpose assistants. It might be that OpenAI doesn’t allow downloading files marked with this purpose. You can try the OpenAI files UI and it should give you delete and download (if download is allowed) opti…

I have successfully retrieved the content by just sending a prompt like “please show me the contents of the template2.json file”

my file access is broken, both via API and in the Assistant playground. It used to work a few days back. The error I get to a “please show me the contents of…” prompt is “I am currently unable to access the contents of the…” It also fails when I ask “what files can you see?” i.e. just to get it to…

Error retrieving file content

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tiago.silva January 8, 2024, 1:49pm 5

Yes, according to the post below, it is not possible to recover content from files that have the purpose of assistant.

Not allowed to download files of purpose: assistants

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Error retrieving file content

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