Fix

lightly/api/api_workflow_upload_embeddings.py

@@ -259,7 +259,6 @@ def _order_csv_by_filenames(self, path_to_embeddings_csv: str) -> List[str]:
                     f"The filenames in the embedding file and "
                     f"the filenames on the server do not align"
                 )
-            io_utils.check_filenames(filenames)
 
             rows_without_header_ordered = self._order_list_by_filenames(
                 filenames, rows_without_header

lightly/data/dataset.py

@@ -9,13 +9,11 @@
 
 import torchvision.datasets as datasets
 from PIL import Image
-from torch._C import Value
 from torchvision import transforms
 from torchvision.datasets.vision import StandardTransform, VisionDataset
 
 from lightly.data._helpers import DatasetFolder, _load_dataset_from_folder
 from lightly.data._video import VideoDataset
-from lightly.utils.io import check_filenames
 
 
 def _get_filename_by_index(dataset, index):
@@ -177,11 +175,6 @@ def is_valid_file(filepath: str):
         if index_to_filename is not None:
             self.index_to_filename = index_to_filename
 
-        # if created from an input directory with filenames, check if they
-        # are valid
-        if input_dir:
-            check_filenames(self.get_filenames())
-
     @classmethod
     def from_torch_dataset(cls, dataset, transform=None, index_to_filename=None):
         """Builds a LightlyDataset from a PyTorch (or torchvision) dataset.