# long\_term\_memory=LongTermMemory(storage = LTMSQLiteStorage(db\_path=storage\_path))

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**Created:** [March 14, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/long-term-memory-longtermmemory-storage-ltmsqlitestorage-db-path-storage-path/4686 "2025-03-14T19:46:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nyan\_Avila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.crewai.com/nyan_avila/32/2009_2.png) [@Nyan\_Avila](https://community.crewai.com/u/Nyan_Avila)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/long-term-memory-longtermmemory-storage-ltmsqlitestorage-db-path-storage-path/4686/1 "2025-03-14T19:46:14Z")

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## MEMORY ERROR: An error occurred during database initialization: unable to open database file

TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)  
Cell In[15], line 29  
11 storage\_path = os.getenv(“CREWAI\_STORAGE\_DIR”, “./site”)  
12 # Define the crew with agents and tasks  
13 financial\_trading\_crew = Crew(  
14 agents=[data\_analyst\_agent,  
15 trading\_strategy\_agent,  
16 execution\_agent,  
17 risk\_management\_agent],  
18  
19 tasks=[data\_analysis\_task,  
20 strategy\_development\_task,  
21 execution\_planning\_task,  
22 risk\_assessment\_task],  
23  
24 manager\_llm=ChatOpenAI(model=“granite-7b-instruct”,  
25 temperature=0.7),  
26 process=Process.hierarchical,  
27 verbose=True,  
28 memory=True,  
—\> 29 long\_term\_memory=LongTermMemory(storage = LTMSQLiteStorage(db\_path=storage\_path))  
30 )

TypeError: LongTermMemory. **init** () got an unexpected keyword argument ‘storage’

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**Author:** ![zinyando](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.crewai.com/zinyando/32/4435_2.png) [@zinyando](https://community.crewai.com/u/zinyando)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/long-term-memory-longtermmemory-storage-ltmsqlitestorage-db-path-storage-path/4686/2 "2025-03-16T12:12:18Z")

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Can you add more context of what you were doing when you got the error and if you can share some code snippets please do.

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**Author:** ![Nyan\_Avila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.crewai.com/nyan_avila/32/2009_2.png) [@Nyan\_Avila](https://community.crewai.com/u/Nyan_Avila)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/long-term-memory-longtermmemory-storage-ltmsqlitestorage-db-path-storage-path/4686/3 "2025-03-17T13:53:56Z")

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I am running crewai in a kubernetes environment as was trying to add memory in a multi-agent crew, where a website scrapper was being used.
