I’ve been using Google Drive in Windows for about a decade and have a good workflow. I recently transitioned to Linux but cannot seem to reliably connect my drive to the filesystem. My work provides unlimited Drive space and since it’s for work I have shared directories with coworkers that I need access to every day. Hence, I’m kind of tied to GDrive.
Is there a reliable method of doing this? Rclone seems to be what I want but it seems to disconnect regularly, and often doesn’t upload the changes I make which defeats the purpose.
Do Linux users just not use Drive?
- folkrav ( @folkrav@lemmy.ca ) 35•8 months ago
- walden ( @walden@sub.wetshaving.social ) 2•8 months ago
lol
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 17•8 months ago
If you use GNOME DE you go to the online accounts dialog, click Google and setup with your credentials, it adds GDrive to Nautilus, integrates gmail and calendar into evolution client.
- Father_Redbeard ( @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ) 7•8 months ago
Came here to say the same. Works pretty damn well too. I also have mine connected to a Nextcloud sever because I’m trying to ditch the big G
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 7•8 months ago
yeah, I am hoping thry add Proton Drive account to that list of online services
- Father_Redbeard ( @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months ago
Seafile would be sick too, but very unlikely. They have a SeaDrive client, but it’s not quite as nicely integrated as the Gnome stuff.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
Yeah I have the seadrive setup also. But GNOME accounts is very well done
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 2•8 months ago
Not gonna happen since Proton is all encrypted.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
That is why you give your credentials in the online accounts section. proton made an email bridge, no reason they can’t bridge an encypted drive
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 1•8 months ago
No but they won’t
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
Do you work for them; To know?They have slowly matched googles offerings and offer linux integration. User suggestions/pressure can direct their efforts. Many of us have dumped Google for Proton. They announced desktop app for Windows and MacOS
https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-windows
And there is a feature request started for Linux
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 1•8 months ago
No, I’ve just been a customer for several years. Development is slow and things like this are simply not a priority. They’re not even a little close to matching Google.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 5•8 months ago
I use KDE and I don’t think there’s something similar, or am I mistaken?
- slacktoid ( @slacktoid@lemmy.ml ) English7•8 months ago
Thru the networks tab on dolphin. Maybe youll need to install some plugin too. But it works fine.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 1•8 months ago
I’m not aware of what is available for KDE. i didn’t see it when I tried KDE, but maybe somebody has successfully used the packages to setup something similar
Are applications able to write directly to the directory this mounts to? Could Codium add this folder?
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•8 months ago
It shows in the Mounts section of nautilus, for apps that don’t recognize that you may have to go to /run/media/username/mount if it doesn’t show up in the Other section of file pickers
- mozz ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 4•8 months ago
Is gcs-fuse not suitable? I haven’t used this but I would guess that it works fairly well.
- Cwilliams ( @Cwilliams@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
It appears that this only supports Google Cloud storage buckets, not Google Drive
- mozz ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 2•8 months ago
My bad, you are correct. For some reason I misread.
There is google-drive-ocamlfuse. Personally, even though the article recommends rclone, I would have started with ocamlfuse; something about the whole interaction with rclone seems flaky-sounding to me (the fact that it’s not just fuse commands, but this whole other tool you have to interact with for doing stuff like ‘ls’ just seems weird). But like I say I have no real experience to be sharing; this is just me searching + sending to you.
- Father_Redbeard ( @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months ago
That seems strange regarding rclone. I’ve used that with success with G drive, backblaze B2, and I drive e2. Any errors or logs you can see?
- meteokr ( @meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe ) 3•8 months ago
I’ve used it in the past with rclone, just mounting it with a systemd service on boot, and treating it like another folder on the system. Does it give you any logs as to why its not connecting right?