Downloading a large file from colab fails

Question

I'm trying to download a directory which I've compressed as a .tar file, using the code below. The .tar file seems to have downloaded but is much smaller than it is shown on colab. Also I get the error message below. Can someone please let me know what the error message below means and is there a better way to down load the files?

Code:

# compressing folder

!tar -cvf DVBPR.tar DVBPR/


# download files to local computer

from google.colab import files

files.download('DVBPR.tar')

Error:

Exception happened during processing of request from ('::ffff:127.0.0.1', 59040, 0, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 317, in _handle_request_noblock
    self.process_request(request, client_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 348, in process_request
    self.finish_request(request, client_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 361, in finish_request
    self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 696, in __init__
    self.handle()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/server.py", line 418, in handle
    self.handle_one_request()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/server.py", line 406, in handle_one_request
    method()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/server.py", line 639, in do_GET
    self.copyfile(f, self.wfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/http/server.py", line 800, in copyfile
    shutil.copyfileobj(source, outputfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/shutil.py", line 82, in copyfileobj
    fdst.write(buf)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/socketserver.py", line 775, in write
    self._sock.sendall(b)
ConnectionResetError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

Abhishek Arya · Answer 1 · 2018-08-08T06:07:23.293

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Read about this error here. I think this generally occurs due to non-availability of a good internet connection. Try it when you have a good connection.

You can also try to mount your drive as mentioned here and then copy it onto your drive. Then download your file using a download manager.

edited Aug 08 '18 at 06:07

answered Aug 08 '18 at 06:01

Abhishek Arya

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Thanks for getting back to me. I added a post below. It solved my issue by saving the file to my google drive instead of downloading locally. – user3476463 Aug 08 '18 at 14:33
Good to know that. – Abhishek Arya Aug 08 '18 at 14:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '18 at 14:32

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This post seemed to solve my issue. Instead of downloading locally I saved it to my google drive using the code in the post:

How to download large files (like weights of a model) from Colaboratory?

answered Aug 08 '18 at 14:32

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