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I have managed to link a Google account to Google Drive using Dolphin. Everything works as expected. Files and folders are being created and synced. My problem comes when I try to access it via the command line. As far as I see, when I edit the configuration, the folder is located at:

remote:/gdrive-network

Dolphin shows it as:

gdrive

Looking for a solution I have seen that some users have pointed to the folder:

/run/user/1000/.gvfs

I don't have that folder or anything related to gvfs. I have searched the entire drive for that keyword.

I also have seen other users recommending installing rclone, but I would like to make it work as it is, without installing anything else.

How would you access this network drive from the command line?

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  • Are you sure it is possible? As far as I know GDrive is not a normal file system so you can't use regular filesystem tools. I suspect you will need some compatibility layer and you can't just mount it. Commented Apr 12, 2024 at 17:30
  • you are right that is not a normal file system, but you can mount it with rclone. I posted an answer with the details, thanks for your help. Commented Apr 13, 2024 at 4:57

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Unfortunately, it is not possible to access if the remote folder is not mounted. That is the whole problem. The plugin that sets it up with Dolphin is Kio-gdrive and that is not meant to be used with the command line. Some users reported bugs on their forums thinking exactly what I was trying to do. You can't access through the command line with that plug-in because it doesn't mount the drive into a location that a console can read.

The way to go is rclone. I know I said in my original question that I didn't want to use rclone but it is the only way I could get it to work.

In case you are struggling to get it to work, these two guides worked for me on Ubuntu 22.04:

https://rclone.org/drive/

https://ucr-research-computing.github.io/Knowledge_Base/how_to_mount_google_drive.html

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