Making an existing director of Python programs available to Colaboratory

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I have a number of directories of Python programs what I would like to execute on Colaboratory. Is there a way to do that -- other than to load and save the files one-by-one? If it helps, the directories are all in my own Google Drive. So all I would need (I think) is a way to cd to a given directory. I tried !cd .., which presumably should go to my top Google Drive directory, but it doesn't seem to work.

Just copied a directory into Google Drive\Colab Notebooks using the file explorer. But Colab refused to cd to that directory.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '18 at 15:47

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You'll need to mount your Google Drive before files contained therein will be available in Colab.

A recipe for how to mount Drive is available in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47744465/8841057

answered Aug 20 '18 at 15:47

Bob Smith

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '18 at 01:42

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After you mount the drive, don’t use !cd.

Use %cd instead.

answered Aug 21 '18 at 01:42

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Making an existing director of Python programs available to Colaboratory

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