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)