diff --git a/Data collection/filterbigupdate.py b/Data collection/filterbigupdate.py
index cb6664cfa334306a69f0197010349d56d3ea5d3a..0514b3e8921891890a8e1a6df649ffcfc6aba7e3 100644
--- a/Data collection/filterbigupdate.py	
+++ b/Data collection/filterbigupdate.py	
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ couchserver = couchdb.Server("http://admin:admin@"+couchIP+":5984/")
 db = couchserver['live_demo2']
 
 
-with open('./comp90024/Data\ collection//'+'big_filtered.json', 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as file:
+with open('./comp90024/Data collection//'+'big_filtered.json', 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as file:
     biga = json.load(file)
 
     
diff --git a/Data collection/searchFile_to_couch.py b/Data collection/searchFile_to_couch.py
index 886a7782d14f430aa961cbf41257d3d0b33441ce..f22714d8e31fa3ca7a8ec2bd479c1d75806f9957 100644
--- a/Data collection/searchFile_to_couch.py	
+++ b/Data collection/searchFile_to_couch.py	
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ db = couchserver['live_demo2']
 data = {}
 
 
-for filename in os.listdir('./comp90024/Data\ collection//UPLOAD'):
+for filename in os.listdir('./comp90024/Data collection//UPLOAD'):
     if filename.startswith('twt_search'):
-        with open('./comp90024/Data\ collection/UPLOAD/'+filename, 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as file:
+        with open('./comp90024/Data collection/UPLOAD/'+filename, 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as file:
             for line in file:
                 #line = ast.literal_eval(line)
                 line = json.loads(line)
diff --git a/Data collection/streamFile_to_couch.py b/Data collection/streamFile_to_couch.py
index 5cc0240f780f9df5c20d64e17a5f9cb79ad656ee..04c305595dccfcc2ee2eb574336da9283b9174a7 100644
--- a/Data collection/streamFile_to_couch.py	
+++ b/Data collection/streamFile_to_couch.py	
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ data = []
 log = []
 
 
-for filename in os.listdir('./comp90024/Data\ collection/UPLOAD/'):
+for filename in os.listdir('./comp90024/Data collection/UPLOAD/'):
     if filename.startswith('twt_stream'):
-        with open('./comp90024/Data\ collection/UPLOAD/'+filename, 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as file:
+        with open('./comp90024/Data collection/UPLOAD/'+filename, 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as file:
             for line in file:
                 try:
                     line = ast.literal_eval(line)