Fail to load a .pth file (pre-trained neural network) using torch.load() on google colab
My google drive is linked to my google colab notebook. Using the pytorch library torch.load($PATH)  fails to load this 219 Mo file (pre-trained neural network) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-9m4aVg8Hze0IsZRyxvm5gLybuRLJHv-) which is in my google drive. However it works fine when I do it locally on my computer. The error i get on google collab is: (settings: Python 3.6, pytorch 1.3.1):

state_dict = torch.load(model_path)['state_dict']
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 303, in load
return _load(f, map_location, pickle_module)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 454, in _load
return legacy_load(f)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 380, in legacy_load
with closing(tarfile.open(fileobj=f, mode='r:', format=tarfile.PAX_FORMAT)) as tar,
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tarfile.py", line 1589, in open
return func(name, filemode, fileobj, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tarfile.py", line 1619, in taropen
return cls(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tarfile.py", line 1482, in init
self.firstmember = self.next()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tarfile.py", line 2297, in next
tarinfo = self.tarinfo.fromtarfile(self)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tarfile.py", line 1092, in fromtarfile
buf = tarfile.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE)
OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error```   




Any help would be much appreciated!


It worked by uploading directly the file to google colab instead of loading it from google drive using:

from google.colab import files
uploaded= files.upload()


I guess this solution is similar to the one proposed by @Yuri
