Hi Adam,
You will need to do this:
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You need a manifest file which will be a file with columns" Sample-id, forward-absolute-path, reverse-absolute-path similar to what's here: Importing data — QIIME 2 2019.7.0 documentation
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The files unfortunately will have to be copied into a folder. You can try this mv command here: command line - How Can I Merge Multiple Directories into One - Ask Ubuntu
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Then your command needs to be replaced to: --input-path needs to be /Users/adam/Desktop/Sunflower.../manifest.txt
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The absolute file paths will be /Users/Adam/desktop/folder/forward.fastq1.fastq.gz, /Users/Adam/desktop/folder/reverse.fastq1.fastq.gz, etc. (and should be in the same ROW, not column)
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You can see someone with this same issue here: importing paired FASTQ file into qiime had errors. any help? - #42 by ben
Ben