Can't access week 3 assignment because of memory issues

Course Q&A Deep Learning Specialization Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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I finished the programming assignment for week 3 but, while doing the bonus task, I accidentally ran it while having a print statement for the inputs in one of the helper functions. Because of this, the notebook started printing out absurd amounts of data to the console/browser and crashed the tab. It seems like the results managed to get autosaved so that now, whenever I try to open the assignment, it tries to load that output and crashes again. I can’t reset the kernel because the page is never actually interactive, it freezes as soon as I open it. This is the last task I have in the course and I can’t finish it. I’m fine with discarding my progress and starting again but I don’t know how to do even that.

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Hi @Marko_Petric,

There’s an article just before the first assignment of the course (in week 2) called “How to refresh your workspace”. Use the second option. That should help you out.

Regards,
Mubsi

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Thanks for responding on this thread, @Mubsi! I’ve been talking to Marko about this over on the Coursera Forums and pointed him to Discourse so that we could ask for your help. I don’t think your solution will help: he doesn’t have a way to do the “rename” first, right? Because he can’t open the notebook and because it’s Week 3 (only one assignment in the Docker image), there’s not an alternate path to get to the file system. And even if he does succeed in getting a fresh copy, he still does not have a way to open the damaged notebook that contains his work. He’d have to start over and reimplement everything. What I was hoping is that you would have some super power to open the notebook with the huge memory footprint and do the “Kernel → Restart and Clear Output” for him to make that notebook usable again. Do you know of a way to do that?

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Hmm, that’s interesting.

Unfortunately, I don’t have that super power @paulinpaloalto. And I believe, his work is probably lost. I’m not sure. Can you share some screenshots with me @Marko_Petric, so that I’m better able to get the picture of what’s happening ? That would be helpful.

Thanks,
Mubsi

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I gave up on trying to retreive my work, it doesn’t take very long to do anyway now that I’ve done it once already. Using the instructions in week 2 I did manage to open the folder with the files and I renamed the old file then fetched the latest version which got me a blank file to start over with. Now I’m working on that one and am almost done so thanks.