Hi all,
I am using gnome and Dell laptop.
I do not understand this topic but I need to put some folders up into google Drive cloud.
How to add google Drive to Firefox.
Seeking help.
Regards,
RSP2
Hi,
Further to my above post, I have also installed ‘kio-gdrive’ package but, it cannot be accessed because there is no GUI installed for it.
Need help to understand how to upload the important folders and documents in Gdrive and access them when needed.
Shall be grateful for help.
Regards,
RSP2
Is there any reason you don’t just go to drive.google.com ?
@rsp2 With Gnome it should be easy to add the Google drive access. (Tested in a Tumbleweed Gnome VM.)
- Go to Gnome settings
- Online accounts
- Google
→ authenticate with your gmail and password
→ grant Gnome full access to Google drive
Now you have an entry in Gnome files with direct access to your Google drive. The entry is your gmail adress in the left navigation bar of Gnome files.
(…will fire up a Leap 15.5 VM to verify if it works the same like under Tumbleweed…)
Yep, works like a charm also under Leap 15.5
KIO (KDE Input/Output) is a system library incorporated into KDE Frameworks, so its normal you don’t have a GUI.
KDE’s file manager is dolphin ; it provide a GUI for kio-gdrive. But you also need Plasma and KCM ( KDE Configuration Modules) to configure your Google account.
I think its time to shift to KDE Plasma, don’t you ?
Did you actually read the thread or even tried to test it yourself??
Gnome has the same cababilitys to connect to Google drive or configure the Google online account like KDE. Read and test the short howto above yourself…
Of course Gnome has its own way to use Gdrive.
RSP2 try to mix kde tool (kio-gdrive) with Gnome so its normal that he cannot achieve to configure his account this way .
When one choose a DE, he must follow the way recommended by this one.
Therefore my final question.
Of course there’s no need to switch from gnome to Kde plasma, only not to use kio-gdrive, when Gnome already has a dedicated tool that works just as well.
Thats why i wrote the on the point howto with only 3 steps on Gnome. It seems the TO didn’t find the entry point to setup Google drive on Gnome. Thats why he tried to install a package which contains the term “gdrive”. No need to add more confusion for the TO by asking if he wants to switch to KDE…
Thanks hui and Wolfheri, appreciate the help!
I followed your instructions to access gDrive access to Gnome and here’s the screenshot:
However, as Wolfheri suggested using Dolphin I’m getting this error:
How do I enable the account in Dolphin?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
RSP2
This is the reason why i do recommend not to add additional confusion to threads by adding unrelated stuff…
@rsp2
Dolphin is the File browser for KDE Plasma.
Gnome files is the file browser for Gnome.
You are using Gnome.
So you should use Gnome files as it is integrated into Gnome.
In Gnome files the integration of Google drive is complete (when you installed the complete Gnome patterns).
If you mix different desktop environments and do not install the complete patterns, you get results like you have now. Stick to the tools of one desktop environment.
Thanks hui!
I understand the concern you have. I would like to stick with Gnome.
However, I don’t see any option (right click) to link/sync any of my local folders to my gDrive. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
-RSP2
It is drag and drop.
Thanks Hui!
Drag and drop worked well to upload the files initially. However, I don’t see the changes getting reflected in my gDrive and the other way around. Am I doing something wrong here?
Appreciate the help, thanks in advance!
Regards,
-RSP2
for an alternative method theres cool little utility called rclone.
worth a try.
Thanks stealth!
rclone looks promising. I created a script with this cmd:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rclone copy --update --verbose --transfers 30 --checkers 8 --contimeout 60s --timeout 300s --retries 3 --low-level-retries 10 --stats 1s --stats-file-name-length 0 “/home/rsp/inv” “Google Drive:My Drive”
also ran the following cmds:
rsp@localhost:~> nano rclonedrive
rsp@localhost:~> chmod u+x rclonedrive
rsp@localhost:~> sudo mv rclonedrive /usr/local/bin/
[sudo] password for root:
rsp@localhost:~> sudo chown $USER.$USER /usr/local/bin/rclonedrive
chown: invalid user: ‘rsp.rsp’
rsp@localhost:~> sudo chown $USER /usr/local/bin/rclonedrive
rsp@localhost:~> rclonedrive
However, getting this error msg:
Failed to create file system for “Google Drive:My Drive”: didn’t find section in config file
How do I access the rclone config file? Also, what should be the value for the Google Drive (with credentials, I assume) in my case? any example will be great 
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
-RSP2
You need to setup the configuration before using rclone:
rclone config
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