Dbt: not found .dbt folder on default default location

Question

I was creating my dbt project, but when running the command dbt init <name_project> it returned the error that it can't find profiles.yml in the .dbt folder. So I try to access the folder on default location and it's not there. Is there a problem install dbt-snowflake inside a python virtual env that changes the installation default behavior?

1. Created virtuaenv: python3 -m venv venv
2. Actvated venv: source venv/bin/activate
3. Updated pip: pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
4. Install dbt-snowflake: pip install dbt-snowflake
5. Trying create a project: bt init <name_project> But I receive this error message:

Usage: dbt init [OPTIONS] [PROJECT_NAME]
Try 'dbt init -h' for help.
Error: Invalid value for '--profiles-dir': Path '/Users/brunofonseca/.dbt' does not exist.

I saw the default location is ~/.dbt, so I tried to access the folder but it is not exist there. I also tried run the command dbt debug --config-dir to find where is the folder, but returns:

04:40:15  Running with dbt=1.5.0
04:40:15  [OpenCommand]: Unable to parse dict {'open_cmd': 'open', 'profiles_dir': PosixPath('/Users/brunofonseca/.dbt')}
04:40:15  To view your profiles.yml file, run:

Finally. I tried to find the profiles.yml inside the venv folder, but it was not found. OBS: the operation system is macos.

Answer 1

you just need to create the .dbt folder in your home directory beforehand, then run the dbt init <name_project> that will automatically create a profiles.yml in your .dbt file.