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[Docs Improvement] Improve documentation on how to export model from Colab

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#1,615 opened on Feb 4, 2025

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Description

I followed the well documented and easy step to fine tune a Mistal model. It went well, I exported the model to Colab and created an Ollama model.

However, I would like to use this model locally on my machine.

I found some information on connecting to Google Drive, but on my side (tried several browsers) it fails with: MessageError: Error: credential propagation was unsuccessful

Of course the resulting unsloth.Q8_0.gguf is 7GB so direct download from Colab fails.

Are there any options ? It could be listed as a caveat in the docs maybe ?

Thanks !

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Investigate common issues when exporting large GGUF files from Colab, such as Google Drive credential propagation errors and direct download limitations. Check existing documentation at unslothai/unsloth repository for current export instructions. Propose adding caveats and alternative methods (e.g., using cloud storage or splitting files) in the docs.