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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I use KDE and I don't think there's something similar, or am I mistaken?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Thru the networks tab on dolphin. Maybe youll need to install some plugin too. But it works fine.

[–] intrapt 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh cool! I'm saving this for later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 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