I want to mount once for all my Google Drive in Colab for this notebook. Usually when I need to do so I just click on the icon on the upper left corner and after some additional clicks my Google Drive keeps mounted (even after "factory reset").
But here with this notebook every time I click on the icon, I get the following message :
Run this cell to mount your Google Drive.
and a cell is added with the mounting code:
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
The problem with this mounting method is that I have to allow Colab to access Drive every time I "factory reset" the machine which happens often while changing codes on the notebook. So this is very cumbersome.
Do you know how I can allow the mount by clicking on the icon so that Colab remembers the mount forever (ie : until I revoke the access) ?
Thanks in advance
So here is a workaround with regards to what I've experienced. This issue appears on Colab notebook that uses UI or interactive elements (widgets, sliders, dropdowns, play buttons, ...).
If you remove all these UI / interactive elements, you'll be able to mount your google Drive once and for all!
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I have a bunch of screenshots (probably in thousands) that I want to run OCR on. I tried different services but Google Drive results are far better. But the process is a little tedious. First I have to upload a photo to Google Drive and then right click the uploaded file and select "Open with -> Google Docs". The resultant doc file contains all the text that was in the screenshot. However, it works for only one file at a time.
So is there a way to tell Google Drive to automatically create the doc file for every photo at the time I upload them.
I know there is Google Drive API that could help in this regard but I have very limited experience with coding and API. I could use a program if available.
I would like to share my work with other people, using a Google Colab shared link, allowing them to edit the code and to run it. Nervertheless, I tried several methods to load a .h5 on Google Colab (even from Google Drive), and the file can be loaded when I run the code, but cannot be loaded when somebody else (other Google account) run the notebook...
I Have read the notebook about how to open drive. I already did as instructed using:
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
After this, I can use !ls to list the contents of my drive but I cannot read or open any file. I already tried:
with open("/content/drive/My Drive/filename.ext", "r") as file:
file = open("/content/drive/My Drive/filename.ext", "r")
!cp "/content/drive/My Drive/filename.ext" "filename.ext"
and also
import pandas as pd
file = pd.read_csv("/content/drive/My Drive/filename.ext")
But none of the above worked. I always get "operation not supported" or "cannot open file for reading".
I have seen some suggestin to use PyDrive. But it is done by copy file from Google Drive to Google Drive. I don't get why you would have to copy back and forth files, since I need to iterate over all the files on the folder.
Why can't google colab just read the file stored on drive? Or am I doing something wrong? Another thing is that I uploaded a bunch of csv files, but google drive lists them as ".csv.gsheet" (using glob). Could that be the problem? I have no other ideas.
It is straight forward.
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
This will ask to open a url which will authorize the mount after you copy paste the token.
If you are not able to read files even now, then prefix your file path with this: 'drive/My Drive' and you are good to go.
For example: file = 'drive/My Drive/data/file.txt'
Where data is a directory in my Google Drive containing file.txt file.
I ran into a similar issue last night. As some of the previous responders posted there are concerns that influence your ability to read the file. These concerns are, one, making certain that your file is accessible via google drive from your Collab notebook and also, two, making certain that your file is in the correct format.
I will explain the steps and include a screen shot.
Open Google Collab. Open the File Browser.
Click the icon that says Mount Drive when hovered. This inserts a new cell in your notebook with the code:
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
Run the cell. You are prompted to accept permissions and get a token to use to mount the drive. Grant the permissions and copy and paste the code into the text input. Hit enter.
The drive now appears in the file browser. Right click the folder /drive/My Drive or click the three dots action menu and select Upload.
Locate your file on disk and Upload.
The file appears in the File Browser. Right click the File (or use the three dots action menu) and select Copy Path.
Paste that file path into your pd.read_csv() call.
Run the cell with the pd.read_csv function call.
You should now have the file uploaded in your Google Drive. Accessible to google collab and file formatting preserved because it not been accessed by any other program to munge the format.
Below is the example sans Permission tab because I previously granted permissions.
I just tried mounting and creating a Drive file as you described and couldn't reproduce the error you describe.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/17iiKJPQOPv1eW5-Ctf707mPHXDtipE5G
Perhaps try resetting your backend using the Runtime -> Reset all runtimes menu. Or, can you share a notebook illustrating the problem?
I (partially) found out what was going on based on Bob Smith and Ami F's answers.
I believe google drive blocks read access from files converted to drive formats (gsheet, gdoc, etc.). And so, whenever I tried to use !cat or open, I got an "operation unsupported" error. When I tried Bob's example, creating a file and then reading it, it worked on my notebook.
So I managed to prevent google from converting files, deleted the old files and uploaded everything to drive again. Now, all my csv's were being kept unchanged (no .gsheet extesion) and I am able to access them using open.
The fact that you see ".csv.gsheet" filenames even though you upload ".csv" filenames makes me think that you're uploading your CSVs to sheets.google.com instead of drive.google.com. Can you confirm that uploading to drive.google.com makes things work?
I do suspect RenatoSz's answer is correct: I can open XLSX files fine, but even just file = open('name_of_file.gsheet') fails for me with Operation not supported error. Annoying that you cannot do the simple action of opening a Google Sheet in Google Colab - this seems like basic functionality.
A workaround for me was:
from google.colab import auth
auth.authenticate_user()
import gspread
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials
# authorise
gc = gspread.authorize(GoogleCredentials.get_application_default())
# open
gsheets = gc.open_by_url('some_fun_URL')
# read
sheets = gsheets.worksheet('List of all experts').get_all_values()
# parse
df = pd.DataFrame(sheets[1:], columns=sheets[0])
Note that gc.open(...) did not work for me.
You can avoid this problem by the following steps
Upload the dataset(.csv) to google drive.
Now select the uploaded dataset on google drive and select the share option from the drop down menu acquired by making a left-click on the selected file.
Now a pop-up window appears on the screen, change the sharing setting to editor.
And in the bottom left of the pop-up window change the restricted(Only-added can edit) to "Anyone with the link can edit.
After these settings are saved. Copy the generated sharable link.
Now got to the below mentioned website and convert your link by pasting the priorly copied link and generate the google drive downloadable link.
https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/
Copy the generated google drive downloadable link.
We are ready with the perfect path address now for the dataset.
file = open("Paste Here the Generated link which we copied", "r")
This would sort the issue perfectly.
The same would work even if was a .txt file as well.
In my Google spreadsheet, when I go to "Tools->Script Editor..", I get a page saying "No Such User" Error. Any idea how to fix this?
I figure this could be a permissions issue, but not sure how to change permissions if required.
Finally i found the solution accidentally.
The issue is resolved by enabling GoogleAppsScript as part of your drive.
Open Google Drive in your web browser.
Click New > More > + Connect more Apps
and then select GoogleAppsScript.
Once i did this going back to script editor of my spreadsheet, no more gives any error.
Here is the link which contained this step:-
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/web/quickstart/apps-script
Also there is additional problem about Invalid OAuth Client when trying to run the script. which i faced since each apps script has to be attached to a Google Cloud Project. This is accessible only to the person who originally created the file even after its in the team drive. In which case, you need to make a copy of the apps script available by going into File->Make a copy. And then in the Resources drop down , you will see Cloud Platform Project, upon clicking it you can now give the project number of the Google Cloud Platform project you created on console.cloud.google.com.
I work for a university which uses Google App for EDU. Recently, I decided to begin testing app script to see how it could be of use to our organization. I have been able to create new app scripts and run them without issue. However, I have found that once I close the browser editor tab, I am not able to retrieve any script I've wrote unless I have the editor url saved (ie. I dont see any of my script in my google drive). Is there a particular app script site where my scripts are listed?
Thanks,
Bryan
The long method i use to get to see all my App Scripts is:
open an existing spreadsheet, or simply create a new spreadsheet
go to Extensions > Apps Script
click on the "Apps Script" logo in the top left corner
This will take you to: https://script.google.com/home
The short method is just to have that link (above) saved on browser toolbar and click it whenever i need to.
to be able to starts new script from the drive you have to connect script app to your drive using the Browser interface like below :
from the connect more apps at the bottom search for "script" and add it.
If you created scripts from inside a spreadsheet, they are tied to that sheet and will not show up in Drive; you can find them via the "Script Manager" menu in that spreadsheet.
All standalone scripts will be visible in your Google Drive. Did you write your script inside a spreadsheet or a Google Site ? If so, you have to open the spreadsheet or site to see your script.
If you indeed have a standalone script, make sure you click the 'All Items' on the left hand side of Google Drive or use search.
If you've created a new script from script.google.com and have saved it, it'll appear in Drive under the root My Drive folder.
If you created one from inside of Drive by clicking the red Create button then Script, it'll be in the folder which you last clicked on before clicking Create. If you don't remember what folder you created the script file under, click the Recent folder name to find it.
If you've started one inside a Form , Sheet, or Doc you'll have to remember where the Form, Sheet or Doc was located in Drive.
You can search all your scripts in Google Drive using app:"Google Apps Script" or by selecting Google Apps Script under Opens With from the drop down menu.
As pointed out by #Mandy, this assumes you have added Apps Script as a connect app. See answer from #Serge on how to do that.
Try the handy dashboard/central location for scripts:
https://script.google.com