diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 786d798..2632441 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ data/*
 
 config/general/private/*
 config/observatory/private/*
+!config/observatory/private/README.md
 config/observatory/privatedev/*/history/
 config/observatory/privatedev/*/obsconfig.p
 src/core/pyros_django/obs_config/fixtures/obsconfig.p
diff --git a/src/core/pyros_django/seq_submit/functions.py b/src/core/pyros_django/seq_submit/functions.py
index de2bb0a..a7e4a23 100644
--- a/src/core/pyros_django/seq_submit/functions.py
+++ b/src/core/pyros_django/seq_submit/functions.py
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ def create_sequence_pickle(sequence):
         "id_seq": sequence.id
     }
     pyros_config.fn.fname = pyros_config.fn.naming_set(fn_param)
-    fpath_name = pyros_config.fn.join()
+    fpath_name = pyros_config.fn.join(pyros_config.fn.fname)
     # create dirs if they don't exist
     os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(fpath_name), exist_ok=True)
     print(fpath_name)
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