Share a part of google drive on Colab

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miehmg picture miehmg · Dec 2, 2018 · Viewed 8k times · Source

We are sharing a google drive folder where we put the colab notebooks. Now we need to upload some text files permanently for notebook usage. I do not want to upload files every time I open colab. From what I searched, I had to upload files to google drive and mount it to colab in some way.
So, when I mount google drive to colab, can my teammates access all my files in it, or simply the shared folder.
If not, is there a way to share only a folder or a file of google drive in colab.

Answer

Ami F picture Ami F · Dec 4, 2018

If you share a folder with your teammates in Google Drive then that folder will appear in each of their drive mounts in colab. Each person running code in a notebook (even if they share a notebook) gets their own VM. One person should never see another person's Drive mount.

An alternative to sharing a data-file folder in Drive is to upload your data to GCS and have your notebook fetch it from there (example).

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