title: load image dataset (folder or zip) located in Google Drive to Google Colab?
body: <p>I have a dataset of images on my Google Drive. I have this dataset both in a compressed .zip version and an uncompressed folder.</p>
  
  <p>I want to train a CNN using Google Colab. How can I tell Colab where the images in my Google Drive are?</p>
  
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  <li><p><a href="https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/snippets/importing_libraries.ipynb" rel="noreferrer">official tutorial does not help me as it only shows how to upload single files, not a folder with 10000 images as in my case.</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49088159/add-a-folder-with-20k-of-images-into-google-colaboratory">Then I found this answer, but the solution is not finished, or at least I did not understand how to go on from unzipping. Unfortunately I am unable to comment this answer as I don't have enough "stackoverflow points"</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46986398/import-data-into-google-colaboratory">I also found this thread, but here all the answer use other tools, such as Github or dropbox</a></p></li>
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  <p>I hope someone could explain me what I need to do or tell me where to find help.</p>
  
  <p>Edit1: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48860586/how-to-upload-and-save-large-data-to-google-colaboratory-from-local-drive">I have found yet another thread asking the same question as mine:</a> Sadly, of the 3 answers, two refer to Kaggle, which I don't know and don't use. The third answer provides two links. The first link refers to the 3rd thread I linked, and the second link only explains how to upload single files manually.</p>