diff --git a/.github/workflows/Test-coverage.yaml b/.github/workflows/Test-coverage.yaml
index 7d4fb87ea..7ada36718 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/Test-coverage.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/Test-coverage.yaml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           install.packages(c("remotes", "curl"), dependencies = TRUE)
-          remotes::install_local(path = ".")
+          remotes::install_local(path = ".", INSTALL_opts = "--no-test-load")
           remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
           remotes::install_cran("covr")
           remotes::install_cran("gridExtra")
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 710afe3a6..07fb32565 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -636,11 +636,6 @@ check_file_exists <- function(files, access = NULL, ...) {
   wsl_user <- gsub("\n", "", wsl_user, fixed = TRUE)
 
   path_metadata <- grep(wsl_user, path_metadata, value = TRUE)
-  if (is_dir) {
-    if (any(substr(path_metadata, 1, 1) != "d")) {
-      return(paste0("Provided path: ", path, " is not a directory!"))
-    }
-  }
 
   if (!is.null(access)) {
     path_permissions <- strsplit(path_metadata, " ", fixed = TRUE)[[1]][1]