cannot access folder in Colaboratory

Question

last day I used this command

import os

os.listdir('drive')

and get access

but today when i used the same command it generates error

FileNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last) in () 1 import os ----> 2 os.listdir('drive')

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'drive'

Answer 1

Your VM has likely been reset. (VMs are reset once inactive for some time.)

You'll need to re-execute the cells used to mount Drive. I'm guessing you've used a recipe like the one described here:

Mounting google drive on google Colab