# Issue loading profiles

**URL:** <https://aiida.discourse.group/t/issue-loading-profiles/211>\
**Category:** New to AiiDA\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 28, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://aiida.discourse.group/t/issue-loading-profiles/211 "2023-12-28T02:45:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![killercatempire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@killercatempire](https://aiida.discourse.group/u/killercatempire)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://aiida.discourse.group/t/issue-loading-profiles/211/1 "2023-12-28T02:45:03Z")

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I am trying to run aiida using the Python API however I am unable to load profiles with `aiida.load_profile()`.  
When I try to do so, I simply get

```auto
ProfileConfigurationError: profile `ericread` does not exist

```

Running `verdi status` shows

```auto
✔ version: AiiDA v2.5.0
✔ config: /home/ericread/Aiida/.aiida
✔ profile: ericread
✔ storage: Storage for 'ericread' [open] @ postgresql://aiida_qs_ericread_05a2aa04cdead65e9a02adb7cb5a36ca:***@localhost:5432/ericread_ericread_05a2aa04cdead65e9a02adb7cb5a36ca / DiskObjectStoreRepository: 62b9f8b9fe794ae580428bcb3cdc025c | /home/ericread/Aiida/.aiida/repository/ericread/container
✔ daemon: Daemon is running with PID 820691

```

When I run `verdi profile list` I get

```auto
Report: configuration folder: /home/ericread/Aiida/.aiida
  Demo
* ericread
  ericread_new

```

sidenote I am unable to delete profiles and get the error

```auto
aiida.common.exceptions.UnreachableStorage: Could not access disk-objectstore <disk_objectstore.container.Container object at 0x7f21e3946e90>: The container is not initialised yet - use .init_container() first

```

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**Author:** ![jusong.yu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/aiida.discourse.group/jusong.yu/32/3_2.png) [@jusong.yu](https://aiida.discourse.group/u/jusong.yu)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://aiida.discourse.group/t/issue-loading-profiles/211/2 "2023-12-28T14:21:19Z")

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Hi Eric,

> [@killercatempire](#):
>
> I am trying to run aiida using the Python API

Can you more specific about what you mean by using the Python API? Do you use a jupyter notebook and run `aiida.load_profile()`? I notice you have AIIDA\_PATH `$HOME/Aiida/.aiida` where the default will be `$HOME/.aiida`

You can try in your notebook (or in your script, then without `%env`):

```python
%env AIIDA_PATH=/home/ericread/Aiida/.aiida

import aiida

aiida.load_profile("ericread")

```

I hope this will help.

Best,  
Jason

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**Author:** ![killercatempire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@killercatempire](https://aiida.discourse.group/u/killercatempire)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://aiida.discourse.group/t/issue-loading-profiles/211/3 "2023-12-28T20:57:33Z")

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That was the issue, I can’t believe I didn’t think about checking whether aiida was looking in the right place. Thank you