diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/nvidia/nvidia_ingest.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/nvidia/nvidia_ingest.py
index 5d5673bdf..158339186 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/nvidia/nvidia_ingest.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/nvidia/nvidia_ingest.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class NvidiaIngestComponent(Component):
     except ImportError:
         msg = (
             "NVIDIA Ingest dependencies missing. "
-            "Please install them using your package manager. (e.g. uv sync --extra nv-ingest)"
+            "Please install them using your package manager. (e.g. uv pip install langflow[nv-ingest])"
         )
         logger.warning(msg)
         file_types = [msg]
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class NvidiaIngestComponent(Component):
         except ImportError as e:
             msg = (
                 "NVIDIA Ingest dependencies missing. "
-                "Please install them using your package manager. (e.g. uv sync --extra nv-ingest)"
+                "Please install them using your package manager. (e.g. uv pip install langflow[nv-ingest])"
             )
             raise ImportError(msg) from e
 
diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/services/storage/local.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/services/storage/local.py
index 72ad7e9f4..0344770ef 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/services/storage/local.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/services/storage/local.py
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-import asyncio
-from pathlib import Path
-
 import anyio
 from aiofile import async_open
 from loguru import logger
@@ -91,9 +88,8 @@ class LocalStorageService(StorageService):
             msg = f"Flow {flow_id} directory does not exist."
             raise FileNotFoundError(msg)
 
-        files = [
-            file.name for file in await asyncio.to_thread(Path(folder_path).iterdir) if await anyio.Path(file).is_file()
-        ]
+        files = [file.name async for file in anyio.Path(folder_path).iterdir() if await anyio.Path(file).is_file()]
+
         logger.info(f"Listed {len(files)} files in flow {flow_id}.")
         return files
 
diff --git a/src/backend/tests/conftest.py b/src/backend/tests/conftest.py
index 17bca1e1b..54ebac064 100644
--- a/src/backend/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/src/backend/tests/conftest.py
@@ -401,8 +401,9 @@ async def client_fixture(
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def runner():
-    return CliRunner()
+def runner(tmp_path):
+    env = {"LANGFLOW_DATABASE_URL": f"sqlite:///{tmp_path}/test.db"}
+    return CliRunner(env=env)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
diff --git a/src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_files.py b/src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_files.py
index bd749c0e4..c4a9574d2 100644
--- a/src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_files.py
+++ b/src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_files.py
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ async def test_list_files(files_client, files_created_api_key, files_flow):
 
     # Then list the files
     response = await files_client.get(f"api/v1/files/list/{files_flow.id}", headers=headers)
-    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert response.status_code == 200, f"Expected 200, got {response.status_code}: {response.json()}"
     files = response.json()["files"]
     assert len(files) == 1
     assert files[0].endswith("test.txt")
diff --git a/src/backend/tests/unit/graph/graph/test_cycles.py b/src/backend/tests/unit/graph/graph/test_cycles.py
index 015e09836..4aaeb4fcf 100644
--- a/src/backend/tests/unit/graph/graph/test_cycles.py
+++ b/src/backend/tests/unit/graph/graph/test_cycles.py
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ def test_that_outputs_cache_is_set_to_false_in_cycle():
         assert output.cache is True
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="Cycles should have a `allows_loop` Output to work.")
 @pytest.mark.skipif(not os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"), reason="OpenAI API key required")
 def test_updated_graph_with_prompts():
     # Chat input initialization
@@ -212,6 +213,7 @@ def test_updated_graph_with_prompts():
     assert "chat_output_1" in results_ids, f"Expected outputs not in results: {results_ids}"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="Cycles should have a `allows_loop` Output to work.")
 @pytest.mark.skipif(not os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"), reason="OpenAI API key required")
 def test_updated_graph_with_max_iterations():
     # Chat input initialization