# Rasa run actions unable to find model

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-run-actions-unable-to-find-model/11831>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [June 20, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-run-actions-unable-to-find-model/11831 "2019-06-20T19:08:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![sihsob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sihsob](https://forum.rasa.com/u/sihsob)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-run-actions-unable-to-find-model/11831/1 "2019-06-20T19:08:24Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying upgrade to the newest version of Rasa and am having issues running the actions server. I’m trying to execute `rasa run actions`. It keeps saying that there’s no model found even after running `rasa train` and having that successfully pass. I’m not sure if it’s a related issue, but I also noticed that Rasa is saving the core trained model to somewhere in my appdata directory and not in my project’s `models` directory. It is saving the NLU model to the `models` directory.

Also I’m not sure if the fact that I have an `actions` folder is interfering with running the actions server since the docs say to having an `actions.py` file. In my old setup, I was able to split my actions up into multiple files and store them in a directory and rasa would pull from all of them when starting up the actions server.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![sihsob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sihsob](https://forum.rasa.com/u/sihsob)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-run-actions-unable-to-find-model/11831/2 "2019-06-20T21:03:57Z")

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Actually I resolved my issue. Looks like due to how I’ve setup my project structure, I need to add the path to my `actions` folder. I was able to start the actions server by running `rasa run actions --actions actions`

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**Author:** ![erohmensing](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/erohmensing/32/1789_2.png) [@erohmensing](https://forum.rasa.com/u/erohmensing)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-run-actions-unable-to-find-model/11831/3 "2019-06-25T15:50:01Z")

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This is a good point, it looks like it must look for only an `actions.py` file, not an `actions` folder. I’ve created an issue for fixing that misleading error message, and maybe supporting loading directly from an `actions` folder without having to specify the argument.