Questions tagged [google-drive]
Google Drive is a file storage and sync service by Google that was released on April 24, 2012
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Cannot see Google Drive from non-SNAP Firefox
I am running the NON-snap version of Firefox 115.0.2 on Ubuntu 22.04.
I am already aware that the snap version of Firefox cannot see beyond the Home directory. I installed the non-SNAP Firefox using ...
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Google drive backup failed
Failed with an unknown error.
Getting this while try to back up my files on ubuntu. I tried sudo nano /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/globals.py^C
and changed run time from 30 to 200. But ...
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Cannot use Google Drive in my Google online account
I want to access files at my Google Drive from Kubuntu 23.04 I'm running. The problem is that when I add Google online account, it allows me to upload files to Youtube only, no traces of Google Drive ...
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Unable to Backup Data restored to Google Drive via "Backups" Application. Please help to get my data RESTORED
When I got to know that Ubuntu 23.04 was out, I wanted to try it. I don't know why but previously while I was using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, I had opted to get notifications for future releases of builds, ...
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Random names instead of actual file & directory names when using Google Drive [duplicate]
I have mounted my Google Drive after logging in using Online Accounts from Settings. I am able to browse all my Drive folders and files through Nautilus after mounting.
But when I open a file - like ...
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Write access to Google Drive in Ubuntu 22.04
I added Google drive through online accounts and successfully mounted this drive. I can see the folder in GNOME files and read all the files, but cannot save anything to the drive (i.e. no write ...
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Google Drive - only drive is appearing not the individually selected folders that comes as Computers in Drive
On my Mac, I installed Google Drive and instead of everything I chose 1 single folder
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Google Drive
Syncing files from 1 folder to Computers
Now, when I connect Google using Online ...
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How to use storage available in two SSDs together?
I have a notebook with Ubuntu 22.04LTS installed (no dual boot). It has two SSDs disk: one with 1TB and another one with 512Gb. I have more than 1TB in my Google Drive and I would like to have my ...
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Backup and synchronizinf Gdrive
Since I am a control freak, I like to have a copy of my professional google drive (I don't keep any confidential file on it) on on my desktop and laptop that I update daily using FreeFileSync. I also ...
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Online account not responding [duplicate]
I want to add my Google Drive to sync a specific folder on my home PC to access it from anywhere. I processed to do that by adding my Google account to the gnome online accounts, but sadly it's not ...
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Ananconda jupterlab access grive file like colab?
It is possbile to mount gdrive like colab doing in anaconda local jupyter lab?
I have tried jupterdrive but not working.
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Can't access Google Drive via Files
Running Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
I used to be able to access my Google Drive via Files, but now I can't.
When I hover over the entry [email protected] in Files I get Mount and Open [email protected], when I click it ...
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Google Drive filename issues in Ubuntu 22.04
This may not be an issue particular to Ubuntu 22.04 but rather simply the way Google Drive works, but I would like to find a workaround somehow. I am new to Ubuntu, so apologies if I cannot give more ...
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How to use Google Docs on Ubuntu desktop?
How to use Google Docs on a desktop? So when say I click an 'xlsx' file it opens with Google docs. Of course, I can upload the file to GD and then edit it, but is there a way to open files with GD by ...
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Add school/work account in Online Account in Ubuntu
Adding a google School account to GNOME UBUNTU 22.04 leads to this error:
"Forbidden, You don't have permission to access this resource."
While it was working perfectly before.
Any idea how ...
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Syncing files using Google Drive between Windows 10 and Ubuntu [duplicate]
I have a desktop with Ubuntu 20.04. My laptop has Windows 10. I am trying to use my Ubuntu desktop for some work and get a copy of the files on the Ubuntu desktop on Google Drive and Windows 10. Is it ...
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Gnome freezes while Nautilus uploads files to Google Drive
Ubuntu 22.04.
I began using Nautilus for uploading files to Google Drive, because of its convenient manner in comparison with opening web browser and uploading there.
But the whole system freezes ...
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Gdrive don't show up anymore in my file menager
after installed "github cli" following it documentation tutorial by this link, my gdrive stopped working.
I checked my "online accounts" in "settings menu" and my google ...
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Copy pictures from ubuntu folder to google drive folder
I am trying to make a crontab schedule to copy all picture files - steam screenshots - to my google drive account, then back them up to my home server.
So far I have "cp - R /home/(user)/Pictures/...
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Google Drive mount problem
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04. I have Google account added and see Google Drive as a external disk. But when I try to mount it I get "timed out".
It worked fine before. I believe the problem has ...
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Google account/google shared drive: cannot open libreoffice files clicking on files
I have logged in to my google account in "online accounts" and I have seen my files there both in a shared drive and in my personal drive. I can copy them to "Documents" and open ...
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How can I change modified date to the creation date stored in the meta data of a photo/video in mass?
I am trying to download all of the photos and videos stored on my google photos account. When I download the files they are slapped with the download date as the modified date. However, I want to ...
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Access Google local drive with Visual code
Good evening everyone, I wanted to ask a question. I have some applications on Ubuntu, which I can access the My Google Drive folder. I wish I could do that with Visual Code. But when I need to open a ...
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Jupyter does not work with dir and file names of Google mounted drives, becuase the names in the Temrinal are not the same as the Files app
I recently migrated from Windows to Ubuntu (22.04 LTS).
I use Ubuntu online accounts to sync with my Google account, which is where I keep all my work. I followed all the steps to correctly mount the ...
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How do i get rid of the network folder shortcut?
I connected my google account when installing, and there is a shortcut to open the drive files. Now when deleting this account, this shortcut is this here, but I find no way to remove it.
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How to run Node.js on from Google Drive folder
I have a company laptop, a personal laptop and a Raspberry Pi 4.
I tried using GitHub, but it's just overkill so I decided to go with normal Google Drive.
After installing it on Windows (work's ...
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Use the same path for windows and ubuntu google drive?
So I just set up Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on my XPS 9500 next to Windows. Everything working fine. Next, I tried to access the Google Drive files on my Windows partition, which also works fine. Of course, ...
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Opening PDFs Denied Access Google Drive in Nautilus (Files)
I've logged in to my Google account in the Ubuntu 22.04 settings. A link to my Google drive appears in Nautilus. I'm able to open photos and doc files, but when I try to open PDFs I receive an error ...
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Google Drive on Lubuntu
I installed the Google drive on lubuntu (after first trying to install odrive which worked out to be a nodrive), using the online accounts (gnome-control-center online-accounts). I can the drive (...
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Google Drive in Ubuntu with full local copy
From OneDrive (Windows) or GoogleDrive (Windows) I am used to much more than I currently have in Ubuntu.
The built-in GNOME Online Accounts is not what I want. I've also tried other clients but all do ...
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Upload Files in Chromium which are stored in a Cloud-Storage
I use Chromium.
When I want to upload a file, then Chromium only let me choose local files which I have on my laptop.
I would like to upload images from a cloud-storage (gdrive, dropbox, onedrive, ...)...
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Download spreadsheet from Google Docs in command line
How can I download a Google spreadsheet from the command line?
This is a simple extension of the question:
How to convert document from Google Docs to text file
But if I specify the format as "...
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Google drive file system automatically mounted
I installed ubuntu a few days ago, and just found out my entire google drive has been mounted as a vfs. The path is: /run/user/1000/gvfs/google-drive:host=gmail.com,user=<username>. I dont ...
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Matlab file & folder names in hashcode in ubuntu 18.04
I Install ubuntu 18.04 and setup matlab R2018a
I installed Google back up and sync on ubuntu 18.04, but when I open matlab and goto backup files on the folder.The name of the files and folders are ...
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Can Google Drive desktop be used on Ubuntu?
I'm thinking of switching my operating system from Windows and I use Google Drive desktop with all of my video work.
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How does google-drive-ocamlfuse start its service during system startup?
When logging to my profile, I have noticed that google-drive is present in Files.
I checked startup programs - no google-drive on list. I also checked fstab - not found it. Checked also sysv-rc-conf - ...
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How to get speech to text to work in google docs in chrome?
I can't get speech to text to work on google docs.
I have the voice to code program Serenade for visual studio code and chrome installed and it works.
I use Ubuntu 20.04.
What I did: I went to google ...
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Google drive option won't show up in my File Manager
I followed this Tutorial, so that i can use Google Drive directly from my File Manager (Nautilus) But As per the tutorial Step 3
Step 3: Mount Google Drive in Ubuntu File Manager
Open your Ubuntu ...
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is there a utility similar to dropbox/google drive that you can choose multiple folders?
All Dropbox competitors I've tried have the same problem, they only sync one main local folder (all other folders must be inside), is there any utility that you can choose multiple folders on OS to ...
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Reading and Writing to documents or other files in Google Drive using gnome account
So I added my Google Drive using gnome-online accounts in ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Now if I make changes to the directory (e.g add a new file or remove it etc.) it syncs fine.
But whenever, I try to open a ...
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WPS-Office messing up mime types associated with Office documents
After installing WPS-Office the mime type for DOCX files is set to application/wps-office.docx (for instance the mime type reported by this command gio info document.docx is standard::content-type: ...
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Why are my file names hashed when I access them from my Google Drive Files on text editors?
When I try accessing my Google Drive folder on VS Code, the file names seem to be hashed and do not appear by their name. This is very annoying. I have tried different editors as well.
I have tried ...
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How can I create a desktop Symlink to a Google Drive sub-folder?
I would like to create a symlink on my desktop to a folder within google drive.
I have already added Google Drive as a Nautilus window sidebar bookmark & I found it is also possible to drag sub-...
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Can't add Google account, the browser window is corrupted
I just installed Ubuntu on my Raspberry Pi 4 from the official image (for rPi). Everything seems to work just fine, except for the Google login window (and the other online accounts as well).
Any idea ...
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Cannot add a second Google account in Kubuntu 20.04
I want to add a second Google Drive account to Online Accounts in order to access a second Google Drive from Dolphin.
After inserting the password, an empty window is displayed indefinitely.
No error ...
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Using Ubuntu Server To Refresh Google Sheets in the Background
I don't even know if this is possible, but I'm new to Ubuntu and figured this would be the place to ask.
I have a few web apps on my phone that I have set up using data from a Google Sheet (using a ...
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How do I move a file via the command line to the Google Drive storage server? (from GNOME Online Accounts)
In another post it tells to use the direct path to the storage server as for example google-drive://[email protected]/. But when I try to move a file to this path it can not find the path. Can you ...
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KeePass XC Database is not syncronised in Ubuntu 20.04 with Google
Hello I have a small problem. My KeePassXC does not seem to write the database to Google Drive. If I save a new password via Windows (Backup & Sync Client), I can see it a short time later in ...
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Editing files from Google Drive
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
I've set up a Google Account under 'Online Accounts', and have given access to files, and the account is showing up as I expected in the File Manager.
I can open files simply by ...
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Does deja dup restore all my Ubuntu from only Google Drive after a complete wipe?
I set up my Backup software (deja dup) on Ubuntu 20.04 after a clean customizing. And my storage is Google Drive.
So I have checked and there is the folder now on Google Drive.
Someday for some reason ...
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