Comments on: Different Ways to Access Google Drive on Linux Desktop https://www.linuxtechi.com/different-ways-access-google-drive-linux-desktop/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:43:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dan https://www.linuxtechi.com/different-ways-access-google-drive-linux-desktop/#comment-5411 Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:43:35 +0000 https://www.linuxtechi.com/?p=7870#comment-5411 I used “hierarchical” storage in my data center days. Files would migrate from my quota to lical store to remote store to off site and yet remain available. I’d love to have similar abilities with someone’s cloud.

]]> By: Etcetera https://www.linuxtechi.com/different-ways-access-google-drive-linux-desktop/#comment-5406 Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:14:22 +0000 https://www.linuxtechi.com/?p=7870#comment-5406 One of the several reasons why I moved my Windows 7 based home server to Linux last year was that I just could not get stable networking between Windows and the VirtualBox VM within which I was running a NextCloud instance – with the Google Drive directory, keeping synced under Windows, mounted within NextCloud as external storage. NextCloud’s own Google Drive sync module had been buggy and was removed soon thereafter, so that was no alternative, either.

Having set up everything on the new Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS machine, with everything else running perfectly, I found that there was no Google Drive client for Linux – bummer. After some search I found InSync, paid their fee, and everything else was virtually a set-up-and-forget thing.

Since then I can reliably access my Google Drive storage (which I only really need in connection with one or two Android apps that have decent support only for Google Drive and Dropbox) through my own NextCloud setup. Fun!

]]> By: liberodark https://www.linuxtechi.com/different-ways-access-google-drive-linux-desktop/#comment-5404 Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:12:03 +0000 https://www.linuxtechi.com/?p=7870#comment-5404 have other and better : https://github.com/liberodark/ODrive

]]> By: Pheeble https://www.linuxtechi.com/different-ways-access-google-drive-linux-desktop/#comment-5400 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:33:26 +0000 https://www.linuxtechi.com/?p=7870#comment-5400 I wrote a shell script that I use to upload files to Google Drive from Thunar in Xubuntu. It uses zenity for dialogs. It’s not very versatile but it does what I need. I can choose whether to enable sharing for the file, and it automatically deletes any duplicates so there is only the latest version of the file in Google Drive. The dialog also displays my account status with each upload, and writes all the relevant info into a timestamped log file for each upload.

]]> By: HostingRocks https://www.linuxtechi.com/different-ways-access-google-drive-linux-desktop/#comment-5392 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 21:02:15 +0000 https://www.linuxtechi.com/?p=7870#comment-5392 I’ve been using rclone for a while and it’s great. Quite fun too.

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