Fastest way to upload files from Google Drive to Google Colab

Have you ever wanted to upload large files into your Google Colab but find that it takes too long? In this video, I will show you how to quickly upload data from Google Drive onto your Google Colab. A file of 1 GB in size will take about half a minute. Let's dive in!

Originally aired on @CodingProfessor

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[avmworldbuddies]

Is this method same for a folder with lots of files

[TheMISBlog]

Very Informative video, Thanks Data Professor

[yt_contentforyou]

Thank you so much !! All those times when the kernel times out and all...Love it ! God bless you Sir for sharing the same.

[gbganalyst]

Thank you so much for this video. Please how do we now use the uploaded file after the code cell especially with pandas?

[farnazmarianoshokrifard]

Hello, for me, it gives the Error in parse, and when I used another technique which is read.csv it gives me the Warning message in file(file, "rt"). Any ideas?

[RESTRICTLESS]

thank you so much - this saved me so much hours! unpacking a .rar with a lot of small files ist like 1000x faster directly in colab instead of gdrive

[Rikimkigsck]

It keep saying "Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses." I changed it I even tried in a different account and it just won't let me

[maiaramarinho]

Could you make this video for using RStudio in Colab?

[camilotello]

What if I want to import multiple files? How can I do that?

[javlontursunov]

Thank you sir. I have a zip file on my google colab, is it possible to unzip it using any commands ? Please make on this as well

[nehikmetse]

How long did it take to upload the file to gdrive? So there isn't a gain when it regards local files.

[findthetruth]

Sorry I just want ask you something. I have recently hear about a new language which is know as Julia. What do you think about it? Anything you can tell us about it?

[shritamkumarmund]

As your files are already in the drive, why to gdown it?
You can go to the path of the file, copy the path, and use that file. That's simple.

[hayesfj]

Is there a quick way to upload the same file back to Google Drive after manipulating it? I tried "! gup --id " but that did not work.

[BahaaMaleb]

!gdown id

this is the new way to do it

[carlbeltran]

It works but this is the message I'm getting.

FutureWarning: Option `--id` was deprecated in version 4.3.1 and will be removed in 5.0. You don't need to pass it anymore to use a file ID.
category=FutureWarning,
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