diff --git a/.github/workflows/dev-build.yaml b/.github/workflows/dev-build.yaml
index e4ff3689c..0e2e15c33 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dev-build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dev-build.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: ['873-pgvector-support'] # put your current branch to create a build. Core team only.
+    branches: ['warn-bad-docker-command'] # put your current branch to create a build. Core team only.
     paths-ignore:
       - '**.md'
       - 'cloud-deployments/*'
diff --git a/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh b/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
index 1ac69e5ba..80296accc 100755
--- a/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+
+# Check if STORAGE_DIR is set
+if [ -z "$STORAGE_DIR" ]; then
+    echo "================================================================"
+    echo "⚠️  ⚠️  ⚠️  WARNING: STORAGE_DIR environment variable is not set! ⚠️  ⚠️  ⚠️"
+    echo ""
+    echo "Not setting this will result in data loss on container restart since"
+    echo "the application will not have a persistent storage location."
+    echo "It can also result in weird errors in various parts of the application."
+    echo ""
+    echo "Please run the container with the official docker command at"
+    echo "https://docs.anythingllm.com/installation-docker/quickstart"
+    echo ""
+    echo "⚠️  ⚠️  ⚠️  WARNING: STORAGE_DIR environment variable is not set! ⚠️  ⚠️  ⚠️"
+    echo "================================================================"
+fi
+
 {
   cd /app/server/ &&
     npx prisma generate --schema=./prisma/schema.prisma &&
@@ -7,4 +24,4 @@
 } &
 { node /app/collector/index.js; } &
 wait -n
-exit $?
+exit $?
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