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Directory size too big when collecting submissions #1970

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@emieczkowski

Hello,

I am currently running into the following error when I run nbgrader collect ps1-2025-a --course psy360:

[CollectApp | INFO] Collecting submission: al3544 ps1-2025-a
[CollectApp | ERROR] Directory size is too big
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/conda/bin/nbgrader", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/apps/nbgraderapp.py", line 330, in main
    NbGraderApp.launch_instance()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jupyter_core/application.py", line 284, in launch_instance
    super().launch_instance(argv=argv, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/traitlets/config/application.py", line 1075, in launch_instance
    app.start()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/apps/nbgraderapp.py", line 322, in start
    super(NbGraderApp, self).start()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/apps/baseapp.py", line 377, in start
    super(NbGrader, self).start()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jupyter_core/application.py", line 271, in start
    self.subapp.start()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/apps/collectapp.py", line 104, in start
    collect.start()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/exchange/default/exchange.py", line 135, in start
    return super(Exchange, self).start()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/exchange/abc/exchange.py", line 84, in start
    self.copy_files()
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/exchange/default/collect.py", line 135, in copy_files
    self.do_copy(src_path, dest_path)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/nbgrader/exchange/default/exchange.py", line 98, in do_copy
    raise RuntimeError(f"Directory size is too big. Size is {dir_size}, maximum size is {1000 * max_dir_size}")
RuntimeError: Directory size is too big. Size is 526808612, maximum size is 100000000

Is there a workaround for this? It seems that there are large .venv files created for several students, and I cannot figure out how to delete them or skip these files during collect.

Thank you!

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