How to Use Google Drive in Linux - gettin started with all that


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Hello and good day dear friends - dear bleeping-community,


I am  musing bout the idea to use rclone for sync  sync files between my machine and Google-Drive
Well i love the idea of using Google Drive (20 gig) since I have it i am lovin it: i want to access the google-drive with - my machine as a shared repository.

well i think that Google-drive is the most interesting thing to me:  its free and offers lots of space. And i want to access it from my Linux-Notebool: I am lovin Google Drive since its is one of the best free cloud storage services for Linux. It offers 20 GB of free storage which is shared across my Gmail account.

that said: i want to get a Google Drive user:

Basically, I would like to create a /home/user/Google-Drive where to sync my existing Google Drive. So that all my Drive files would be locally on my machine.

question:  how to get started - using this with the commands:

rclone sync -i SOURCE remote:DESTINATION[/Code]



so if I wanted to sync the Documents folder, I should use ~/Documents. But what is the line for the destination?

I am currently running Ubuntu  on my notebook.

How to get started to  reach the google drive folders!?
 

any and all help is greatly  appreciated

 

ps. i found this ressource - here https://itsfoss.com/use-google-drive-linux/

  On 15/02/2025 at 12:11, Jim K said:

Instructions on configuring rclone for Drive.

https://rclone.org/drive/

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many thanks dear Jim K - this is really great. i am happy to hear from you - and i definitly will have a closer look at the documents

 

have a great day🙂

Is there a reason for wanting to use RClone? If it's a pet project I can understand, but there do seem to be far easier ways to connect your Google Drive to Ubuntu. Here's an example: https://www.ubuntumint.com/install-google-drive-on-ubuntu/

  • 2 weeks later...

I use insync. It is a paid app, but it has worked for me much better than even the original drive application on windows. Insync works wonders on Debian (Or debian based) distros and on Arch (from the AUR).

I missed this thread, dang..

I'll second insync. I used it years ago. Haven't for awhile now. Gets the job done. From what I remember of it.

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