# Plots Disappearing After File Download

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/plots-disappearing-after-file-download/44385>\
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python\
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plots-disappearing-after-file-download/44385 "2020-08-31T19:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasoneliu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@jasoneliu](https://community.plotly.com/u/jasoneliu)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plots-disappearing-after-file-download/44385/1 "2020-08-31T19:43:27Z")

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I’ve been using Plotly in Jupyter Notebook, and everything shows up fine if I use

```auto
import plotly.io as pio
pio.renderers.default='notebook'

```

They still show up when the notebook is duplicated or pushed to a repository. However, the plots disappear (just empty white space) if I download the file. This occurs when using scp to get the file from a VM or when downloading from the repo. How can I fix this?