# (OS X) Exported sketch looks for data folder in the wrong place
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/os-x-exported-sketch-looks-for-data-folder-in-the-wrong-place/16499
**Category:** Processing.py
**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/os-x-exported-sketch-looks-for-data-folder-in-the-wrong-place/16499 "2019-12-19T01:36:22Z")
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### Author:  [@pip](https://discourse.processing.org/u/pip)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/os-x-exported-sketch-looks-for-data-folder-in-the-wrong-place/16499/1 "2019-12-19T01:36:22Z")
After exporting a python sketch, which needed a .png image file, the .app wouldn’t run.
After doing some testing, I realized the bug was that the sketch was looking for the .png file in “/Users/ME/”, instead of “/Users/ME/App.app/Contents/Processing/data/” (the path of the image).
And even after trying to use sketchPath, it still didn’t work since the sketchPath was “/Users/ME/”.
So here’s the question, how do I make the sketch in the .app register the data file in the correct path or at least somewhere inside the .app without me doing it manually?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/os-x-exported-sketch-looks-for-data-folder-in-the-wrong-place/16499/2 "2019-12-22T00:37:25Z")
> [@pip](#):
>
> the sketchPath was “/Users/ME/”
That is strange.
Can you spell out the structure of your sketch?
Are you running building a sketch pyde file directly inside the users folder, using the user ME home as the sketch folder?
What happens if you create this sketch ~/Documents/PathTest/PathTest.pyde and run it?
```auto
def setup():
size(600,360)
def draw():
background(128)
text(sketchPath(), 10, 20)
```
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### Author:  [@pip](https://discourse.processing.org/u/pip)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/os-x-exported-sketch-looks-for-data-folder-in-the-wrong-place/16499/3 "2019-12-22T16:24:06Z")
I am building the sketch in ~/Documents/Processing/test/ ,
and the other ones are built just in ~/Documents/Processing/name/ .
In case 1, everything happened as predicted:
However, in case two, I got a different result!!!
This time, it turns the sketch path into the base directory “/”!!!
UPDATE:
I opened the .app file and went into test.app/Contents/MacOS/ and edited the unix executable, by removing the --exported on line 5.
I got this:
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/os-x-exported-sketch-looks-for-data-folder-in-the-wrong-place/16499/4 "2019-12-22T16:37:13Z")
So these are literally exactly the same sketch contents, with nothing else in the directory, and the literal folder names and file names are:
> /Users/ME/Documents/Processing/test/test.pyde
> /Users/ME/Documents/Processing/name/name.pyde
is that correct? No other changes at all, and those are the exact paths/files?
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### Author:  [@pip](https://discourse.processing.org/u/pip)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/os-x-exported-sketch-looks-for-data-folder-in-the-wrong-place/16499/5 "2019-12-22T16:40:52Z")
The other one is:
```auto
/Users/ME/Documents/Processing/Chess/Chess.pyde
```
“name” is a generalization for all the other sketches, as I use the same format.