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====== Google drive on Linux ====== | ====== Google drive on Linux ====== | ||
+ | It's strange, but true: Google doesn' | ||
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+ | Luckily, there is a feature built in to the desktop to access Google Drive. | ||
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+ | Open the '' | ||
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+ | You will be presented with a Google login screen, followed by a screen that asks for the permissions needed to access your Google account. | ||
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+ | Next, you can select which parts of Google synchronization you want. Not all of it will be useful in many cases, eg the contacts and calendar synchronizations only seem to work with the '' | ||
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+ | Once done, you will see a new entry in your file manager, and probably on your desktop (depending on which desktop and file manager you use, and what settings you have chosen for the desktop). | ||
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+ | So far, this has been tested with Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate (file managers nautilus and nemo). | ||