diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/other_scripts/preprocess_data_era5_step2_template.sh b/video_prediction_tools/other_scripts/preprocess_data_era5_step2_template.sh
index 9af83c2d845ddb3397d9ee76145446e8136bc05e..d8297b452f874598541dbba54355369bf8af4c7d 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/other_scripts/preprocess_data_era5_step2_template.sh
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/other_scripts/preprocess_data_era5_step2_template.sh
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ source ../virtual_envs/${VIRT_ENV_NAME}/bin/activate
 
 sequence_length=20
 sequences_per_file=10
-source_dir=/home/b.gong/preprocessed_data-40x40-990N2010E-2t/pickle
+source_dir=/path/to/pickle/directory
 base_dir="$(dirname "$source_dir")"
 destination_dir=${base_dir}/tfrecords
+
 #the number of the nodes should be the number of processed folder (month) plus 1
 n_nodes=3