Although it does offer two way sync (Drive to Local, Local to Drive) it does so only within a certain Google Drive Folder. This works similar to Google's official offering on Windows. This client adds a Google Drive folder and if you put anything in it, it will sync it to your Google Drive, perfect right? Well not for me. It has both Ubuntu and Fedora packages and installs fairly easily. If you are willing to pay a few dollars, there is a decent option called overGrive. Once I had it configured, I wrote some scripts to two way sync. This allowed me to sync the way I wanted to, but can be painful to get working and I had issues setting it up with 2 factor authentication. My favorite CLI option is g sync, which basically gives you rsync functionality to your Google Drive. If you want to tinker here are a few examples. I can not really recommend these to anyone who will depend on them for daily workflow. Plus, command line utilities are not exactly what I was looking for. All of which I have found painful to get working. If you do a quick search you will find a few command line options for using Google Drive. I have also dabbled a bit with Ubuntu, but not enough to give a recommendation.

I have played around with a few options and figured I would share my experiences here to hopefully help someone.Īll of my testing has been done of Fedora 23, 24 or 25 which is my distro of choice.

Here we are on the cusp of 2017 and there is no official Drive support in sight. Google has been promising a Linux support for Drive since it first debuted in 2012.

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