Google colab Could not find directory (My Drive)

Question

Error when i want to use a file from driv in colab

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

and them

INPUT_DIRECTORY='/content/drive/My Drive/deepcumbia/data/xml'

error:

Could not find directory /content/drive/My/

See this [Google Colab: how to read data from my google drive?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48376580/google-colab-how-to-read-data-from-my-google-drive/53592023) — Goion, Sep 17 '19 at 19:21

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '19 at 22:30

4

Escape the space.

INPUT_DIRECTORY='/content/drive/My\ Drive/deepcumbia/data/xml'

answered Sep 17 '19 at 22:30

Bob Smith

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '21 at 00:06

This is to add another way which worked for me, i.e. double check the actual directory path in colab.

When debugging this same issue, I noticed Google Colab takes the Google Drive default directory a bit different. E.g. in Google Colab, the directory looked like this, there is no space in the word "MyDrive":

But when I browsed to the Google Drive, noticed there is a space in "My Drive":

So, for my case, I changed from:

sth= pd.read_csv('/content/drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/Datasets/xyz.csv', index_col='abc')

to

sth= pd.read_csv('/content/drive/MyDrive/Colab Notebooks/Datasets/xyz.csv', index_col='abc')

Then it worked.

Google colab Could not find directory (My Drive)

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