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

      Actually their pages say it is hard to find Linux devs for desktop, and that is why it is slow. And there is already a proton drive API you can use with rclone on linux.

      And as far as critisim you said specifically not as good as google, so I provide a reason why. you can’t then change you tact and say it wasn’t critism whenvyou do a compare. It will come, things take time. You seem to keep moving goal posts here so have a good rest of your week.

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        10 months ago

        I am using rclone with Linux, and works just fine. Just long term backups, but it runs the same speed (slow) as windows-to-proton.

        Anyway, point being rclone works!

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          Yep, and some linux community will most likely pickup on development if Proton doesn’t turn it into a full desktop linux app like the Windows or Mac version.

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          10 months ago

          Your initial comment was “Not gonna happen since Proton is all encrypted.” When I pointed out that that makes no difference–and we have Windows and Mac version (that accesses this encrypted data) then you switched to another reason. It won’t end, so I have to say good bye, knowing that My Proton Vpn on linux install works, the e-mail bridge works, somebody will integrate the Proton drive API with linux because that’s what the community does even if Proton doesn’t release it.