Jupyterlab extension jupyterlab_templates not finding template files

Question

I'm trying to work with the jupyterlab_templates extension. For some reason, it's not finding the corresponding template files, even though I've set the correct path? When running jupyter lab, it finds the extension and confirms the search path I set, but isn't finding any files:

[I 2022-01-11 18:10:09.108 ServerApp] jupyterlab_templates | extension was successfully loaded.
Installing jupyterlab_templates handler on path /templates
Search paths:
    /Users/emilaz/.jupyter/templates
Available templates:

[I 2022-01-11 18:10:09.108 ServerApp] jupyterlab_templates.extension | extension was successfully loaded.

Here is what the content of /Users/my_username/.jupyter/templates looks like:

$ ls /Users/emilaz/.jupyter/templates
new_template.ipynb  some_template.ipynb

Here is my jupyter_notebook_config.py file:

c.JupyterLabTemplates.template_dirs = ['/Users/emilaz/.jupyter/templates']
c.JupyterLabTemplates.include_default = False
c.JupyterLabTemplates.include_core_paths = False

I've tried

1. un- and reinstalling both jupyterlab and jupyterlab_templates
2. changing the permission on the template files to 660
3. running jupyter trust on the two files.
4. moving the files elsewhere (in a non-hidden folder)

I then tried to include the default templates (set c.JupyterLabTemplates.include_default=True, c.JupyterLabTemplates.include_core_paths=True). This makes the sample template available for selection. I then tried to move my own .ipynb files into the same folder as the sample template ipynb, but they still don't show.

The package versions are

jupyterlab==3.2.6

jupyterlab-templates==0.3.1

Answer 1

Dirty solution: add os link to your template_dir near the folder where it sees Sample.ipynb