Uploaded file name becomes 'file' unconditionally

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I realized that ‘openai.File.create’ unconditionally changes a file name as ‘file’ yesterday (4/13/2022). Here is the line in my app.

fileInfo = openai.File.create(file=open("\gpt3\uploading.json"), purpose=“answers”)

A filename properties in fileInfo structure contains ‘file’ instead of ‘uploading.json’. I am sure that an uploaded file name was a file name without folder name. The last upload was probably 10 days ago. I confirmed the last upload uses an actual file name instead of ‘file’. How can I set an actual file name to an uploaded file name instead of ‘file’.

Does anyone now what’s going on? Any help will be appreciated.

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I’m getting this as well, could anyone from OpenAI please help?

I updated a file like this:
response = openai.File.create(file=open(“train.jsonl”, “rb”), purpose=‘fine-tune’)

and when I list file, the filename always called “file”, this will cause the later uploads overwrite the previous one, and eventually I can only have 1 file uploaded.

{
  "bytes": 209,
  "created_at": 1676821064,
  "filename": "file",
  "id": "file-j6lzVv4YmAd3brhflWerxyBt",
  "object": "file",
  "purpose": "fine-tune",
  "status": "uploaded",
  "status_details": null
}

Could anyone from OpenAI look into this?

Thanks.

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@dwang @yamaguchi.hiro if you’re still wondering about this, I found a solution: pass user_provided_filename=‘your-file-name’ when you call openai.File.create()

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Nice solution! Could you please provide the source of this parameter? Thanks.

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@lawrencepbr , I can’t remember where I picked it up, but I do remember that I could never find mention of it in any of the official docs. Seems to work just fine though.

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It’s based on their python SDK on GitHub.

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I’m getting this as well, could anyone from OpenAI please help?

I updated a file like this:
response = openai.File.create(file=open(“train.jsonl”, “rb”), purpose=‘fine-tune’)

and when I list file, the filename always called “file”, this will cause the later uploads overwrite the previous one, and eventually I can only have 1 file uploaded.

{
  "bytes": 209,
  "created_at": 1676821064,
  "filename": "file",
  "id": "file-j6lzVv4YmAd3brhflWerxyBt",
  "object": "file",
  "purpose": "fine-tune",
  "status": "uploaded",
  "status_details": null
}

Could anyone from OpenAI look into this?

Thanks.

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Did you ever get a solution for this? I’m running into the same problem

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Based on their python SDK on GitHub, you need to add one argument called “user_provided_filename”, for example:

res = await openai.File.acreate(
            file=file.getvalue(),
            purpose="fine-tune",
            user_provided_filename=file.name)
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I use this method to upload file:

response = openai.File.create(file=open("test.jsonl", "rb"), purpose="fine-tune")

I can’t give the name of the uploaded file and it will always be “file”. Earlier I used the OpenAI API CLI and it seems it used the name of my local file as filename in the uploaded list.

| File ID                       | Object   |   Bytes | Created             | File name                        | Purpose   |
|-------------------------------|----------|---------|---------------------|----------------------------------|-----------|
| file-okR5ToAuB9bUIID81CH7QtX2 | file     |     205 | 2023-06-11 15:29:55 | file                             | fine-tune |
| file-DUQxtcx241NelpHnDxqMiywM | file     |     205 | 2023-06-11 15:58:58 | file                             | fine-tune |

Can I somehow define the name of the uploaded file via the Python openai.File.create() call as well?

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Based on their python SDK on GitHub, you need to add one argument called “user_provided_filename”, for example:

res = await openai.File.acreate(
            file=file.getvalue(),
            purpose="fine-tune",
            user_provided_filename=file.name)
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