AssertionError on using fsspec with service account about pydrive2 HOT 1 CLOSED

Yes, I think this an outdate docs issue. I don't think was actually properly supported. By it I mean any path that is relative to the root. ls (and thus walk that is using `ls) are expecting an "absolute" path.

I would try to use walk("root") (and I'll update the docs).

Note, that walk("root") with a service account will show you files on the service account's drive.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14124946/google-drive-service-account-view-files-from-another-account
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28534822/location-of-google-drive-service-account-uploads

To deal with files / directories in your account, you need to use ID of the drive/directory instead of root (it can be found in UI in url), and you need to give permission to a service account to view the files.

from pydrive2.