Google Colab-ValueError: Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists

Question

I want to mount google drive on google Colab and I am using this command to mount the drive

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount(\'/content/drive/\')
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Answer 1

I ran into this error this morning as well. I'm not sure what this commit what meant to fix but it certainly caused the error. A workaround is to copy the code for drive.py into colab, comment out lines 100 and 101 like this:

# drive.py

...

  try:
    if _os.path.islink(mountpoint):
      raise ValueError('Mountpoint must not be a symlink')
    if _os.path.isdir(mountpoint) and _os.listdir(mountpoint):
      raise ValueError('Mountpoint must not already contain files')
    if not _os.path.isdir(mountpoint) and _os.path.exists(mountpoint):
      raise ValueError('Mountpoint must either be a directory or not exist')
    #  if '/' in mountpoint and not _os.path.exists(_os.path.dirname(mountpoint)):
    #    raise ValueError('Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists')
  except:
    d.terminate(force=True)
    raise

...

then replace

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

with

mount('/content/drive/')

using the mount function you copied from drive.py

Hopefully the issue gets fixed quickly enough so we can do away with this workaround.