# Add image from my files

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977 "2019-04-09T22:49:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 16\
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**Author:** ![GERSON\_EZEQUIEL\_HERN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gerson_ezequiel_hern/32/7437_2.png) [@GERSON\_EZEQUIEL\_HERN](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GERSON_EZEQUIEL_HERN)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/1 "2019-04-09T22:49:47Z")

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I’m trying to load an image that I have on my computer, but I get this error … someone can audare me …

img = load(“C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes\_de\_gerson\colibri.jpg”);

the image, this name is colibri.jpg

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**Author:** ![alejandromerchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alejandromerchan/32/10500_2.png) [@alejandromerchan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alejandromerchan)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/2 "2019-04-09T23:06:35Z")

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This should work

```julia
using ImageView
img = load(“C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes_de_gerson\colibri.jpg”);
imshow(img)

```

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**Author:** ![GERSON\_EZEQUIEL\_HERN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gerson_ezequiel_hern/32/7437_2.png) [@GERSON\_EZEQUIEL\_HERN](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GERSON_EZEQUIEL_HERN)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/3 "2019-04-11T06:12:28Z")

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```julia
julia> using ImageView

julia> img = load(“C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes_de_gerson\colibri.jpg”);
ERROR: syntax: invalid character "“" near column 13

julia> img = load(“C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes_de_gerson\colibri.jpg");
ERROR: syntax: invalid character "“" near column 13

julia> img = load("C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes_de_gerson\colibri.jpg");
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence

```

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**Author:** ![alejandromerchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alejandromerchan/32/10500_2.png) [@alejandromerchan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alejandromerchan)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/4 "2019-04-11T06:32:44Z")

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That’s look like some error in PATH. Just to make sure, go to the folder where the image is located

```julia
using ImageView

cd("C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes_de_gerson")
# Confirm location 
pwd()
# Run again 
img = load("colibri.jpg")

```

See if that works.

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/5 "2019-04-11T07:26:28Z")

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The problem is that discourse replaces the character " with the stylish “:

```julia
julia> '"'
'"': ASCII/Unicode U+0022 (category Po: Punctuation, other)

julia> '“'
'“': Unicode U+201c (category Pi: Punctuation, initial quote)

```

You need to replace it when copy pasting. A real misfeature of discourse…

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/6 "2019-04-11T08:21:56Z")

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> [@kristoffer.carlsson](#):
>
> A real misfeature of discourse…

I think it is a nice feature. You just need to quote code with backticks.

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/7 "2019-04-11T11:29:30Z")

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As you can see the first post had code quotes. I don’t know exactly how it happens but multiple times i have copied code and had to replace these quotes. Very annoying.

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/8 "2019-04-11T11:32:38Z")

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I don’t think the OP used ```s, that’s why when the second post copy-pasted the text (and quoted it), it ended up with `“`s.

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/9 "2019-04-11T11:38:30Z")

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I don’t really care how it happened, I just know it happens, and the annoyance it causes me far outweighs the pleasure of slightly curved quote characters.

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**Author:** ![GERSON\_EZEQUIEL\_HERN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gerson_ezequiel_hern/32/7437_2.png) [@GERSON\_EZEQUIEL\_HERN](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GERSON_EZEQUIEL_HERN)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/10 "2019-04-11T13:24:56Z")

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```julia
julia> using ImageView

julia> cd("C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes_de_gerson")
ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence

julia> pwd
pwd (generic function with 1 method)

julia> img = load("colibri.jpg")
ERROR: UndefVarError: load not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at none:0

julia>

```

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/11 "2019-04-11T13:37:27Z")

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Probably you meant `pwd()`. And you may need to be `using FileIO` to get `load`.

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**Author:** ![alejandromerchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alejandromerchan/32/10500_2.png) [@alejandromerchan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alejandromerchan)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/12 "2019-04-11T14:21:55Z")

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That’s good to know, I’ve never noticed that.

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/13 "2019-04-11T14:39:16Z")

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> [@GERSON\_EZEQUIEL\_HERN](#):
>
> cd(“C:\Users\gerso.julia\Imagenes\_de\_gerson”)  
> ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence

You are on Windows. Need to escape the backslashs

```julia
cd("C:\\Users\\gerso.julia\\Imagenes_de_gerson")

```

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**Author:** ![js135005](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/js135005/32/8219_2.png) [@js135005](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/js135005)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/14 "2019-04-11T14:46:24Z")

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That’s why I use raw for something like this on Windows.

```julia
raw"C:\user\..."

```

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/15 "2019-04-11T14:48:31Z")

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Simpler to use (works on Win too)

```julia
"c:/user/..."

```

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**Author:** ![js135005](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/js135005/32/8219_2.png) [@js135005](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/js135005)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-image-from-my-files/22977/16 "2019-04-11T14:50:04Z")

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True but I’ve used Windows for so long that \ is embedded in my brain!

However your approach is more portable.