# Opening a Nucleus course notebook from download **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting Started\ **Created:** [February 21, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/opening-a-nucleus-course-notebook-from-download/51060 "2023-02-21T18:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeffreywelshconsulti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/80bc00/32.png) [@jeffreywelshconsulti](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/jeffreywelshconsulti)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/opening-a-nucleus-course-notebook-from-download/51060/1 "2023-02-21T18:57:55Z")
For each course there is a link for a course notebook I can download to my Mac. I’d like to keep a copy locally. I download the file. I select the path where the downloaded file resides from the finder window using Ctrl+click and copy the pathname. If I select Open from Path I get a message saying it cannot find the path. I enter the path only. If I try Open from URL, the error is that the file is not a JSON. I enter the [path]/filename.ipynb I ended up uploading the downloaded file (w/upload icon)into my workspace and everything works fine. Just trying to understand, why neither of the Open functions work. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong? thx! ---
**Author:** ![jeffreywelshconsulti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/80bc00/32.png) [@jeffreywelshconsulti](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/jeffreywelshconsulti)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/opening-a-nucleus-course-notebook-from-download/51060/2 "2023-02-22T20:11:07Z")
On a Mac you have to open terminal, move the notebook to the desired directory, navigate there, then start Jupyter. The Open Path - which I still could not get to work from Ananconda/Jupyter apparently works relative to the directory in which you opened Jupyter, does not allow opening files outside of that base directory.