

And at the end click the play button and let the magic begin.Want to copy the files from the "Shared with me" folder in Google Drive to your new account but don’t know where to start? This comprehensive guide will explain in detail how you can transfer the documents that other people have shared with you. As shown in the picture copy that path and open a new code block and type: !cp -r 'ADD THE COPIED LINE HERE/.' '/gdrive/My Drive/DESTINATION_FOLDER'ĭo not forget the semi columns and the dot included in the code. This will return a value for the root of the shared folder. In the new block that you created add the following line: %cd /gdrive/My Drive/SHARED_FOLDER I need to copy shared folder Cisco IOS Updated to a folder I created called Drive. For the sake of this presentation I’m going to use an example from my drive. In this block we are going to find the root of the “folder” that we need to copy. On the side you will find the Files button for easier navigation in your gdrive. Copy the code and paste it in to the blank space where is needed.

Press the little play button on the side of the code block and the code will return a link.įollow the link, give permission to Google colab to use your drive and at the end of the link there will be long authorization code waiting for you. In the code tab add the following lines: from lab import drive


Search for Google Colab and create New Notebook. Login to your Google Drive account, make a shortcut from the shared folder to your drive. Adding a shared file to your Google drive is easy, adding even 2,3.10 files is fine, you just right click it and add it to “my drive”, but when you have a shared folder with multiple folders inside that need to be hard copied to your drive then you can hit a wall.įirst thought is to download and re upload again to your drive, but that is going to cost you time and bandwidth depending on the size you are planning to download/upload.īut there is one easy workaround using Google Colab, so let’s start.
