# Trouble downloading public 1000 Genomes data **URL:** \ **Category:** Science\ **Created:** [August 27, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-downloading-public-1000-genomes-data/2206 "2021-08-27T09:23:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mahantesh19](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/mahantesh19/32/621_2.png) [@mahantesh19](https://discuss.hail.is/u/mahantesh19)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-downloading-public-1000-genomes-data/2206/1 "2021-08-27T09:23:49Z")
I’m trying to follow the tutorial from here: [Hail | GWAS Tutorial](https://hail.is/docs/0.2/tutorials/01-genome-wide-association-study.html) and I’m getting the following error message: hl.utils.get\_1kg(‘data/’) ## 2021-08-27 17:20:24 Hail: INFO: downloading 1KG VCF … Source: [https://storage.googleapis.com/hail-tutorial/1kg.vcf.bgz](https://storage.googleapis.com/hail-tutorial/1kg.vcf.bgz) FatalError Traceback (most recent call last) in ----\> 1 hl.utils.get\_1kg(‘data/’) ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\hail\utils\tutorial.py in get\_1kg(output\_dir, overwrite) 78 f’ Source: {source}') 79 sync\_retry\_transient\_errors(urlretrieve, resources[‘1kg\_matrix\_table’], tmp\_vcf) —\> 80 cluster\_readable\_vcf = \_copy\_to\_tmp(fs, local\_path\_uri(tmp\_vcf), extension=‘vcf.bgz’) 81 info(‘importing VCF and writing to matrix table…’) 82 hl.import\_vcf(cluster\_readable\_vcf, min\_partitions=16).write(matrix\_table\_path, overwrite=True) ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\hail\utils\tutorial.py in \_copy\_to\_tmp(fs, src, extension) 38 def \_copy\_to\_tmp(fs, src, extension=None): 39 dst = new\_temp\_file(extension=extension) —\> 40 fs.copy(src, dst) 41 return dst 42 ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\hail\fs\hadoop\_fs.py in copy(self, src, dest) 25 26 def copy(self, src: str, dest: str): —\> 27 self.\_jfs.copy(src, dest, False) 28 29 def exists(self, path: str) → bool: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\py4j\java\_gateway.py in **call** (self, \*args) 1255 answer = self.gateway\_client.send\_command(command) 1256 return\_value = get\_return\_value( → 1257 answer, self.gateway\_client, self.target\_id, self.name) 1258 1259 for temp\_arg in temp\_args: ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\hail\backend\spark\_backend.py in deco(\*args, \*\*kwargs) 40 raise FatalError(‘%s\n\nJava stack trace:\n%s\n’ 41 ‘Hail version: %s\n’ —\> 42 ‘Error summary: %s’ % (deepest, full, hail. **version** , deepest)) from None 43 except pyspark.sql.utils.CapturedException as e: 44 raise FatalError(‘%s\n\nJava stack trace:\n%s\n’ FatalError: IllegalArgumentException: Wrong FS: file://C:\Users\MAHANT~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpvl2wrxhw\1kg.vcf.bgz, expected: file:/// Java stack trace: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong FS: file://C:\Users\MAHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpvl2wrxhw\1kg.vcf.bgz, expected: file:/// at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.checkPath(FileSystem.java:649) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.pathToFile(RawLocalFileSystem.java:82) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.deprecatedGetFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.getFileLinkStatusInternal(RawLocalFileSystem.java:824) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.getFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java:601) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FilterFileSystem.getFileStatus(FilterFileSystem.java:421) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem$ChecksumFSInputChecker.(ChecksumFileSystem.java:142) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem.open(ChecksumFileSystem.java:346) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.open(FileSystem.java:769) at is.hail.io.fs.HadoopFS.openNoCompression(HadoopFS.scala:83) at is.hail.io.fs.FS$class.copy(FS.scala:188) at is.hail.io.fs.HadoopFS.copy(HadoopFS.scala:70) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244) at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357) at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282) at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132) at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79) at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Hail version: 0.2.56-87d89a1d8159 Error summary: IllegalArgumentException: Wrong FS: file://C:\Users\MAHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpvl2wrxhw\1kg.vcf.bgz, expected: file:/// Can you please suggest whats the mistake? TIA ---
**Author:** ![hail-team](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ad7895/32.png) [@hail-team](https://discuss.hail.is/u/hail-team)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-downloading-public-1000-genomes-data/2206/2 "2021-08-27T13:28:17Z")
Hail isn’t currently known to work on Windows, though I believe people have gotten around this by using Windows Subsystem for Linux.