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clarky
clarky

Reputation: 471

Google Colab-ValueError: Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists

I want to mount google drive on google Colab and I am using this command to mount the drive

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive/')

but I am getting this error

ValueError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-45-9667a744255b> in <module>()
       1 from google.colab import drive
 ----> 2 drive.mount('content/drive/')

 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/google/colab/drive.py in
 mount(mountpoint, force_remount)
      99       raise ValueError('Mountpoint must either be a directory or not exist')
     100     if '/' in mountpoint and not _os.path.exists(_os.path.dirname(mountpoint)):
 --> 101       raise ValueError('Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists')
     102   except:
     103     d.terminate(force=True)

 ValueError: Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists

Upvotes: 21

Views: 91774

Answers (13)

Iynkaran Jeyachandran
Iynkaran Jeyachandran

Reputation: 1

You indicated you typed the right command

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive/')

Read the -----> it indicates you that what ever you typed during the time of your code snippet, line 2 has the error and its not your code you mentioned. the / needed to be there before the word content. Good luck.

ValueError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-45-9667a744255b> in <module>()
       1 from google.colab import drive
 ----> 2 drive.mount('content/drive/')

Upvotes: 0

Tanuj Sharma
Tanuj Sharma

Reputation: 1

This can happen if you haven't mounted the drive previously but had a path that led to saving your data in the drive. So now, as colab doesn't have access to your drive, it will create a directory with the same names as your path and then save it in the colab session. Now, if you want to mount the drive now, it will have issues because the same path is referred but to two different locations.
Easy fix for this is to:
a.) Delete the files from your sessions in the colab
or
b.) Rename drive named folder in your colab session.
Now try to mount again. You should be good to go.

Upvotes: 0

Nilson Sales
Nilson Sales

Reputation: 13

WARNING: Make sure to read my explanation before running the command below

I ran into this error today and the reason was that Google Colab for some reason kept some folders and files from the previous session (probably because I created the folders from within the notebook). These files and folders were still being shown via the "Folders" menu, but no other GDrive files were, as I hadn't authenticated again. Even the "force_remount=True" option didn't work.

To fix this, I simply deleted the remaining files from /drive/ by running the following command:

! rm -rf drive/

Then I could mount my GDrive again on the /drive/ directory:

from google.colab import drive

drive.mount('/content/drive')

Upvotes: 1

Diving
Diving

Reputation: 914

Just go to "manage section" , then terminate your current section, and try to mount again with:

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive', force_remount=True)

It worked here.

Upvotes: 12

nggih
nggih

Reputation: 21

In my case, I click the folder icon on the side panel, it will show you Upload, Refresh and Mount Drive.

  1. click on the Mount Drive, the 'drive' folder containing 'My Drive' folder appears

  2. Then run

    from google.colab import drive drive.mount('drive')

  3. Go to this URL in a browser will appear - I sign to one of my account

  4. Enter your authorization code

Drive

Upvotes: 2

valkyrie55
valkyrie55

Reputation: 505

Simply use:

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount("/content/gdrive")

instead of:

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount("/content/drive/")

Upvotes: 6

Prashanth Sateesh
Prashanth Sateesh

Reputation: 11

just remove the '/' following the drive and it works perfectly..

That is from drive.mount('/content/drive/') to drive.mount('/content/drive')

Upvotes: 1

Endy Berm&#250;dez R
Endy Berm&#250;dez R

Reputation: 381

Replace drive.mount('/content/drive/') by drive.mount('/content/drive')

Upvotes: 1

azdobylak
azdobylak

Reputation: 1

If mounting does not work even if absolute path /content/drive was used, then verify that appropriate directories exist,

!mdkir -p /content/drive

Upvotes: 0

Pinkerton
Pinkerton

Reputation: 11

I received the error as well change to drive.mount('/content/drive')

Upvotes: 1

Ami F
Ami F

Reputation: 2282

@clarky: the error you got was correct tried to tell you that your usage of drive.mount() is incorrect: the mountpoint argument to drive.mount() must be an empty directory that exists, or the name of a non-existent file/directory in a directory that does exist so that the mountpoint can be created as part of the mount operation. Your usage of a relative path in drive.mount('content/drive/') (i.e. content/drive/) implies that the mount should happen at '/content/content/drive' because the interpreter's default path is /content; note the doubled content path component there, and likely you don't already have a directory named /content/content inside of which a mountpoint named drive could be created. The fix to your notebook code is to instead use drive.mount('/content/drive') - note the leading / making the mountpount path absolute instead of relative.

Upvotes: 17

Pradeep Sakharelia
Pradeep Sakharelia

Reputation: 23

Run command to unmount drive first.

!fusermount -u drive

Then try run again,

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

Upvotes: 0

Jimi
Jimi

Reputation: 539

I ran into this error this morning as well. I'm not sure what this commit what meant to fix but it certainly caused the error. A workaround is to copy the code for drive.py into colab, comment out lines 100 and 101 like this:

# drive.py

...

  try:
    if _os.path.islink(mountpoint):
      raise ValueError('Mountpoint must not be a symlink')
    if _os.path.isdir(mountpoint) and _os.listdir(mountpoint):
      raise ValueError('Mountpoint must not already contain files')
    if not _os.path.isdir(mountpoint) and _os.path.exists(mountpoint):
      raise ValueError('Mountpoint must either be a directory or not exist')
    #  if '/' in mountpoint and not _os.path.exists(_os.path.dirname(mountpoint)):
    #    raise ValueError('Mountpoint must be in a directory that exists')
  except:
    d.terminate(force=True)
    raise

...

then replace 

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('content/drive/')

with

mount('/content/drive/')

using the mount function you copied from drive.py

Hopefully the issue gets fixed quickly enough so we can do away with this workaround.

Upvotes: 3

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