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Colab not allowing use of %%writefile into google drive

In colab I can write the contents of a cell into file like so

%%writefile Testtext.txt blah blah blah

This will produce a text file with 'blah blah blah'

But when I try to write it into my Google drive like so

%%writefile gdrive/My Drive/Testtext.txt blah blah blah

I get this error

UsageError: unrecognized arguments: Drive/Testtext.txt

My drive is mounted.

Solution

  • As an alternative, You can change the directory to google drive

      %cd /content/drive/My\ Drive

    and use %%writefile