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?

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    10 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.

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      10 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

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        10 months ago

        yeah, I am hoping thry add Proton Drive account to that list of online services

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          10 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.

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            10 months ago

            Yeah I have the seadrive setup also. But GNOME accounts is very well done

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      10 months ago

      Are applications able to write directly to the directory this mounts to? Could Codium add this folder?

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        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