STOP TRYING TO INSTALL COPILOT
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Last time I tried Linux there was no native Google Drive application and none of the third party ones worked properly to sync my files. Has that changed at all?? Don't tell me to stop using Google Drive I'm locked in for work
I have no clue; I don't touch that corpo garbage, but if there's not and yyou can't, and wine doesn't work:
Run a windows (or android? Android seems lighter) VM, give it no permissions it doesn't need, sandbox the fuck out of it, then sync from there.
The constant tension between "Try Linux! It's so easy" and a reply like this
I know this is mostly Google's fault, but I just can't switch if doing this is required to run a program I need to use daily
Sorry, this made me have to hold back my laughter so much on the train that I repeatedly snorted. EVERY LINUX SOLUTION REPLY IS LIKE THIS.
Youre married to a specific corpo shit thing that is shit and specifically does not support Linux, on purpose. Google is fighting you, they are making this hard. And your ux (probably gnome or KDE) is what looks like it has the solution here. Try that instead of acting like a libchild. Dual boot or whatever til you find a thing that works (windows updates gave been known to kill dual boots partitioned on same physical drive)
And the reason to switch isn't because it's 'so easy'. I made a kind of linger post somewhere in this thread on it.
Like I said, I'm well aware this is mostly because Google refuses to make a Linux client. Also the UX solutions you mentioned are ones I've already looked at and they don't actually sync the files, which is what I need. The one program (Insync) that actually seems to do this is not FOSS and costs $40 per account
And it looks like there are Linux tools that do what6ou want, integrated into at least the two major UX's.
He was an asshole, but he wasn't wrong.
If you're interested in switching over and that's the only hang up, I can give a few solutions a try on my machine at home this weekend and let you know if there are options for you that might not have come up through forum posts.
I know a lot of times when something gets added and "just works" no one bothers to talk about it so you don't know until you poke around yourself!
That would be incredible. The main thing is that it needs to sync the files from cloud to desktop and vice versa like the first party application does. Most of the work arounds provide remote access to files from the desktop, but I actually need them physically synced on the drive.
https://flathub.org/apps/com.hunterwittenborn.Celeste
I ended up having a bit of time (and remembering
), I would second what u/ProletarianDictator said. Celeste (which can be found on FlatHub and is fully free) seems to do exactly what you're looking for, checking for updates to files in the cloud or on your machine constantly and pushing/pulling as needed.
I will say that the method is... rough right now. Assuming you're working with a modern system you should be fine, but if you're on laptop you might not want it running 24/7. Rather than waiting for changes to occur and then sending the data around, it seems like it's constantly checking to make sure the local/remote files are staying in sync.
It's all open source though and works very smoothly, so I'd definitely give it a try!
Edit: I also want to note that I specifically checked that the files are really located on my machine - I can confirm they are present in both locations and after severing the link between directories, the files persisted in a usable state on both ends. The drive integration as part of GNOME does not do this and I confirmed that.
I will definitely check Celeste out. I appreciate you taking a look at this for me!
https://itsfoss.com/use-google-drive-linux/
Unfortunately I have already read through this, and only the paid, non-Foss solution actually syncs files as far as I can tell
You could always run Google Drive online, or run it with a Brave (Chromium) Web App, which would run the web version in an application displayed on your desktop. I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, I'm just trying to think of solutions.
The problem is that I need the actual files to sync to my desktop and the cloud which appears to be the sticking point
Yeah, I don't know if there's a way to do that. That's rough...
I've been doing this with rclone. https://github.com/rclone/rclone
I manually run it to sync my important files (which I modify on my Desktop) up to Google Drive (which serves as a web accessible backup).
Yeah, frustrating because I tried to switch a couple of years ago and mostly really liked it, but I really need this one thing to work
I really hope you find a way to get it working one day, it's annoying to have everything working nicely except for that ONE THING.
Maybe I'll just break down and get the paid program. Idk. I really don't want Windows 11
are you not allowed to expense things for work? previous jobs have allowed for collecting receipts of officesupplies/software needed and submitting reports for reimbursement and personally never had anything like that denied
Not my job, unfortunately.
I am confused. Google drive has been on my computer for years. I don't use it much, I don't like storing things there. But Dolphin just mounts it and treats it like another drive. Maybe I am missing something? Like when you use a certain application it doesn't see the google drive in the file dialog or something?
Here is a screen cap of the gdrive with folders in it: https://i.imgur.com/DjOc9xx.png
Your imgur link is down, but let me ask: are those files actually physically present on your hard drive or they streamed from the cloud server
The imgur link is down? That would be bizarre. Opens on my desktop and my phone....
The files are on the google drive in the cloud. I believe there is a package to sync them with local files if I HAD to have them local. Or I suppose a rclone or syncthing script could run locally to do the same thing.
Do you need to disconnect your laptop from the cloud and then sync them later? Is that what I am missing?
It's that I need the files available locally across multiple devices, synced through the cloud. Ideally automatically, but I'd take a manual sync