Why am I getting a ERNO fileNotFoundException, when the file is in the same folder as the .ipynb notebook?

Question

I'm trying to install dependencies via a requirements.txt file. But I'm running into an error where the file is not found (I'm using Google Collab).

!pip install -r ./requirements.txt

I obtain this error:

ERROR: Could not open requirements file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirements.txt'

But they are both in the same folder

I was following this post.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is a Google Collab thing, but all I had to do to fix this was to make sure the path pointed to the folder all the files were in [even though the ipynb file was in the same folder as the requirements.txt]: example:

cd '/content/drive/MyDrive/Colab Notebooks/name/name_of_folder_with_all_files'