# Dvc add with --to-remote flag causes "ERROR: unexpected error - seek"

**URL:** https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-add-with-to-remote-flag-causes-error-unexpected-error-seek/2080
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [May 8, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-add-with-to-remote-flag-causes-error-unexpected-error-seek/2080 "2024-05-08T12:09:51Z")
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### Author: ![T4RWERRKA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@T4RWERRKA](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/T4RWERRKA)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-add-with-to-remote-flag-causes-error-unexpected-error-seek/2080/1 "2024-05-08T12:09:51Z")

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## What I want to achieve:

Hi! I tried to add data from my Google Drive to local dvc repository, but I don’t want to download the data, as I usually train my models on Google Colab and don’t need all the data on my local machine. But I want to use dvc on Google Colab to track version of data on Google Drive. After I trained my final model, I want to do `dvc pull` to get a needed version of the data, because I need to write my model in python classes but not in notebooks, so I might need the dataset on my local machine

## What I tried:

1. I created a git repository and a dvc repository on the google drive and used `dvc add data` there.
2. Then I created a git repo and a dvc repo in my local project folder, used `dvc remote add mydrive gdrive://*folder-on-gdrive-id*`
3. Tried to use ` dvc add --to-remote -r mydrive https://*url-to-data-folder*`, but I got an error: “ERROR: unexpected error - seek”.

## My questions:

1. Is my plan I described at the beginning correct?
2. What does this error mean?

### `dvc version` output on my local machine:

DVC version: 3.50.1 (pip)  
Platform: Python 3.10.8 on Windows-10-10.0.22631-SP0  
Subprojects:  
dvc\_data = 3.15.1  
dvc\_objects = 5.1.0  
dvc\_render = 1.0.2  
dvc\_task = 0.4.0  
scmrepo = 3.3.2  
Supports:  
gdrive (pydrive2 = 1.19.0),  
http (aiohttp = 3.9.5, aiohttp-retry = 2.8.3),  
https (aiohttp = 3.9.5, aiohttp-retry = 2.8.3)  
Config:  
Global: C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\iterative\dvc  
System: C:\ProgramData\iterative\dvc  
Cache types: [https://error.dvc.org/no-dvc-cache](https://error.dvc.org/no-dvc-cache)  
Caches: local  
Remotes: gdrive  
Workspace directory: NTFS on D:  
Repo: dvc, git  
Repo.site\_cache\_dir: C:\ProgramData\iterative\dvc\Cache\repo\de1325664c16713ee098d5f1f1a9c37a