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10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by hedora »

kornhole wrote: post #27

I connected my Linux systems to my Nextcloud server, and then I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud. When I turned on server side encryption in Nextcloud it also encrypted my connected storage of Gdrive. So I accomplished both Gdrive integration as well as file encryption at the same time.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but nextcloud constantly somehow manages to corrupt data it is storing locally. Its only user is an android backup agent.

Is there something that's, say, 1% as complicated as nextcloud that can sync multiple devices without giving a cloud provider access to cleartext (while also keeping an encrypted backup in the cloud)?

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

maccard wrote: post #71
snvzz wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consider paying for S3.

S3 is not a filesystem replacement unfortunately.

Why not? It's a cloud service that stores files, can pretend to have directories, and for which there exist multiple utilities to mount the thing as a local file system. What's the shortcoming?

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by hedora »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #106
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #73

Google is a me too company now. Innovation left the company a long time ago. That is why I tell startups I invest in, not to worry at all if Google enters their space.

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Are you trying to compare them to Google Plus?

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by skinnymuch »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #84
easrng wrote: post #66

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There's Google Chat, which is really made for companies but available on normal accounts too, and Google Messages, their SMS/MMS/RCS app for Android, which requires that you have an Android phone and a phone plan.

Also Hangouts, Meet, Duo, Allo, Spaces. I don't even know if all of them are alive now, and I don't care enough to check.

Disco is forgotten usually. From the early smartphone days before Whatsapp and others had firmly won. I believe they even owned Disco.com. I had that app installed way back when.

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by saalweachter »

seanwilson wrote: post #46

Do Google use Google Drive on Linux internally? Isn't Linux used a lot there?

To be honest I like, forgot this -- attaching/syncing Drive and the local disk -- was a thing people did.

I just like, upload and download files as needed to Drive? I don't really have a huge "need to sync files to the cloud" quadrant in my personal or professional life.

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by skinnymuch »

samizdis wrote: post #103
fswd wrote: post #42

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You nailed it. Every 3 years google renames and rebadges their chat system. I don't even know what to call it anymore.

I've posted this link before in comments, but for anyone who's not read this arstechnica piece it is well worth it: A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

Wow! This really does cover everything. I just wrote a comment saying Disco is never brought up. It is here.

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by mr_toad »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #132
maccard wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

S3 is not a filesystem replacement unfortunately.

Why not? It's a cloud service that stores files, can pretend to have directories, and for which there exist multiple utilities to mount the thing as a local file system. What's the shortcoming?

S3 is object storage not block storage.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/object-stor...

Object storage isn’t random access (the ability to read and write any part of a file) the way a disk drive is. This causes complications for software that expects to be able to randomly access a file like they would on a disk.

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by hedora »

jeffbee wrote: post #120
lawl wrote: post #102

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> they just want a convenient quasi-commercial software package that doesn't cost them anything. Wouldn't I be paying for gdrive and thus expect to get working software? The free tier isn't enough for me and I would have paid if they had a linux client. Its okay if they don't think linux is worth it, but your argument that i should pay for the software again seems really weird to me.

Again: Google writes, maintains, distributes, and supports a working Drive client for Linux, called DriveFS.

This?

https://github.com/thejinx0r/DriveFS

It is the top hit for "google drivefs source code" on google. "google drivefs" just returns hits about clearing a cache on macos or something.

The duck duck go results are arguably more relevant, though one is a link to DriveFS.exe, which I don't plan to download.

Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

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Post by Xorlev »

llanowarelves wrote: post #64
CoastalCoder wrote: post #37

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It barely works. Google Drive deletes files randomly (whether due to programmatic/storage problems or the documented issue with the algo not liking things and silently deleting them). Missing block level sync reinforces that it's a toy. What would you do with 100+gb they tout if not having big media files? 10,000 spreadsheets (that might still randomly get deleted)? I would be afraid to rely on it for business

I work on Drive.

If you're observing deleted files, and you don't have any third party applications with access to your Drive, we'd be very interested in hearing from you, we take data integrity issues very seriously.

You can check the activity under any folder and see what issued the deletes. If there are missing files _without_ an entry there, and it doesn't seem to be a rogue integration with the Drive API, feel free to get in touch with me.

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