title: How can I read an image using cv2.imread after having done the drive.mount from colab?
body: <pre><code>from google.colab import drive
  drive.mount('/gdrive')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After having mounted the drive and having copied and pasted the authentication code I can finally see my files in '/gdrive/My\ Drive/', by selecting an image in here I can actually check that:</p>
  
  <pre><code>filePath = '/gdrive/My\ Drive/img.png'
  !ls -l $filePath
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>will return the desired file (with 600 permissions for root which I am), so I'm sure that filePath actually refers to the image I want to read. However <code>os.path.isfile(filePath)</code> will return <code>False</code> and <code>cv2.imread(filePath)</code> will return <code>None</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Why? Which concept am I actually missing?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>