Error while reading datasets using h5py module

Course Q&A Deep Learning Specialization Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tun
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Cell In[3], line 1
----> 1 train_dataset = h5py.File('datasets/train_signs.h5', "r")
      2 test_dataset = h5py.File('datasets/test_signs.h5', "r")

File ~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\h5py\_hl\files.py:562, in File.__init__(self, name, mode, driver, libver, userblock_size, swmr, rdcc_nslots, rdcc_nbytes, rdcc_w0, track_order, fs_strategy, fs_persist, fs_threshold, fs_page_size, page_buf_size, min_meta_keep, min_raw_keep, locking, alignment_threshold, alignment_interval, meta_block_size, **kwds)
    553     fapl = make_fapl(driver, libver, rdcc_nslots, rdcc_nbytes, rdcc_w0,
    554                      locking, page_buf_size, min_meta_keep, min_raw_keep,
    555                      alignment_threshold=alignment_threshold,
    556                      alignment_interval=alignment_interval,
    557                      meta_block_size=meta_block_size,
    558                      **kwds)
    559     fcpl = make_fcpl(track_order=track_order, fs_strategy=fs_strategy,
    560                      fs_persist=fs_persist, fs_threshold=fs_threshold,
    561                      fs_page_size=fs_page_size)
--> 562     fid = make_fid(name, mode, userblock_size, fapl, fcpl, swmr=swmr)
    564 if isinstance(libver, tuple):
    565     self._libver = libver

File ~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\h5py\_hl\files.py:235, in make_fid(name, mode, userblock_size, fapl, fcpl, swmr)
    233     if swmr and swmr_support:
    234         flags |= h5f.ACC_SWMR_READ
--> 235     fid = h5f.open(name, flags, fapl=fapl)
    236 elif mode == 'r+':
    237     fid = h5f.open(name, h5f.ACC_RDWR, fapl=fapl)

File h5py\_objects.pyx:54, in h5py._objects.with_phil.wrapper()

File h5py\_objects.pyx:55, in h5py._objects.with_phil.wrapper()

File h5py\h5f.pyx:102, in h5py.h5f.open()

OSError: Unable to synchronously open file (file signature not found)
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Hi,
Please specify the course, week and notebook your are referring to so that we can properly help you

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course 2 week 3 of deep learning specialization
notebook: tensorflow introduction

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Are you running the notebooks on the Coursera website or on your local computer? If the latter, there are a lot of things you have to arrange first, including downloading not just the notebook but all the accompanying files. See this thread for instructions. You also have issues to worry about w.r.t. the versions of various packages being different than they are in the course environment.