(edited) Access local files on the Colab server

[Gadji-M]

Hi everyone,
Not sure what is happening but i can't configure colab in VS Code. I've tried but when i import a dataset, it keeps telling me FileNotFoundError. Could someone help with this?

[kevineger]

Could you list out the exact steps you're taking?

For example:

• Auto-connect to a Colab runtime
• Right click a file in the File Explorer
• Click Upload to Colab
• Execute the following Python code on the runtime: foo
• Etc.

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Check out our User Guide to see how the Colab extension can be used, including a video example of how to upload files to your runtime.

[Gadji-M]

These are the steps followed:

1. Launching VS Code and opening the jupyter notebook;
2. I selected the kernel
3. Clic on Another kernel -> colab -> Autoconnect
4. But when i try to import a dataset after loading all the libraries, i have the following error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Volumes/Ghost/DIT_training/Course_on_Machine_Learning/projet1_ML_Master1_2026/WFH_WFO_dataset.csv'
Output is truncated. View as a [scrollable element](command:cellOutput.enableScrolling?2b091951-7187-41ef-8f56-5cf95397890c) or open in a [text editor](command:workbench.action.openLargeOutput?2b091951-7187-41ef-8f56-5cf95397890c). Adjust cell output [settings](command:workbench.action.openSettings?%5B%22%40tag%3AnotebookOutputLayout%22%5D)...

[kevineger]

when i try to import a dataset

How are you doing this? Your pasted error suggests your code is looking for data in /Volumes. Does that exist on the runtime? You can execute !ls /Volumes to validate. I suspect your code may be referencing local files, not files pushes to the Colab runtime?

[kevineger]

Yes the code is referencing local files that exist in the Volumes drive.

Replying here to your separate top-level comment.

When you spin up a Colab server, it's a completely separate machine, hosted on Google's infrastructure. It doesn't have access to your local filesystem. If you want to bring local files over to the Colab VM there's a few ways to do that. I suggest taking a look at the user guide, specifically this section.

[Gadji-M]

Yes the code is referencing local files that exist in the Volumes drive. Le jeu. 18 juin 2026 à 00:55, Kevin Eger ***@***.***> a écrit :

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