How to open and work on files stored in Google drive from Google colab?

Question

So I cannot successfully install miniconda and decided to work in Google Colab. But my local repository is in Google Drive. All of the jupyter notebook that I want to work on is

Answer 1

What works for me is opening the notebook from Google Drive, not from Colab.

The following steps:

• Open Google Drive in your browser, go to the notebook (ipynb) file in your repo (sub)folder;
• Right-click the file and select 'Open with Google Colaboratory', now Colab opens with the notebook;
  • For this you might have to install the 'Open in Colab' chrome extension
• Mount Google Drive from Colab (if not mounted yet), see code snippet;
• Change directory to the folder where you want to run your notebook, see code snippet;
• Now I can run my notebook

Mount drive:

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

Change directory to your repository folder:

%cd drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/(YOUR_REPO_PATH)

Answer 2

1. First you need to mount google drive and then

   from google.colab import drive
   drive.mount('/content/gdrive')

2. Click the link on colb and authenticate (copy password and paste in colab) to mount and access your gdrive.

3. You can access your folder as shown below path_to_data = '/content/gdrive/My Drive/MyFolder_where_data_stored' Unique_Labels_List = os.listdir(path_to_data)

4. After running model, save the model, zip and download to local.
   !zip -r ./MyFolder.zip /content/MyFolder
   files.download("/content/MyFolder.zip")

There are many other things you can do. Check this resource for some more commands and you can find many more by searching in google. Thanks!