Adding Folders/Files to Shared Drive Folders

George Lawson-Crowson

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Hey all. I'm trying to add folders/files on a local Linux server to a shared drive folder. However, when GAM searches for the folder it only searches folders/files owned by me. Is there a way to search for shared folders? Do I need to use gamadvx?

gam version: 3.61

gam command:

gam user crow...@southwestern.edu add drivefile localfile "delete_me.txt" drivefilename "delete_me.txt" parentname "Shared Drive Folder"

gam output:

Searching for files with query: "mimeType = "application/vnd.google-apps.folder" and "me" in owners and title = "Shared Drive Folder""...

got 0 files...

Sincerely,

George Crowson

Systems Developer

Southwestern University

Ross Scroggs

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George,

The best you can do short run is get the id for the parent folder "Shared Drive Folder"; the id will be the same for all users.

gam user crow...@southwestern.edu print filelist fullquery "title='Shared Drive Folder'" id

Get the id from the output.

gam user crow...@southwestern.edu add drivefile localfile "delete_me.txt" drivefilename "delete_me.txt" parentid <put id here>

Gam 3.61 is very old, I'd suggest updating to the current version.

Ross

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George Lawson-Crowson

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Thanks for the heads up, I didn't realize we were so out of date. I'll work with the sysadmin to get GAM updated. The command for getting the folder ID only returns crow...@southwestern.edu -- but maybe that's because we're out of date?

George

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George,

The best you can do short run is get the id for the parent folder "Shared Drive Folder"; the id will be the same for all users.
gam user crow...@southwestern.edu print filelist fullquery "title='Shared Drive Folder'" id
Get the id from the output.
gam user crow...@southwestern.edu add drivefile localfile "delete_me.txt" drivefilename "delete_me.txt" parentid <put id here>

Gam 3.61 is very old, I'd suggest updating to the current version.

Ross

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:31 PM, George Lawson-Crowson <crow...@southwestern.edu> wrote:

Hey all. I'm trying to add folders/files on a local Linux server to a shared drive folder. However, when GAM searches for the folder it only searches folders/files owned by me. Is there a way to search for shared folders? Do I need to use gamadvx?

gam version: 3.61

gam command:
gam user crow...@southwestern.edu add drivefile localfile "delete_me.txt" drivefilename "delete_me.txt" parentname "Shared Drive Folder"

gam output:
Searching for files with query: "mimeType = "application/vnd.google-apps.folder" and "me" in owners and title = "Shared Drive Folder""...
got 0 files...

Sincerely,
George Crowson
Systems Developer
Southwestern University

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George,

You can get the Id this way.

In Google Drive,

right-click on Shared Drive Folder

click Share...

click Advanced

Link to Share: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/<ID is Here>?usp=sharing

click Done

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George,

In my Basic (https://github.com/taers232c/GAM-B) and Advanced (https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-X or https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD) versions

you would do the following:

gam user crow...@southwestern.edu add drivefile localfile "delete_me.txt" drivefilename "delete_me.txt" sharedparentname "Shared Drive Folder"

GAM-B is a drop-in replacement for GAM, GAMADV-X and GAMADVX-TD (full TeamDrive support) use your existing project, client_secrets.json and oauth2service.json files. You generate a new oauth2.txt file.

Ross

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George Lawson-Crowson

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Awesome! Thank you, Ross! That'll solve my problems perfectly. The manual folder-id lookup didn't work because I'm trying to automate nested folder creation.

I'm curious if GAMADV-X and GAMADV-XTD are forks that'll merge back into GAM at some point? Are they independently updated?

Thanks again,

George

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George,

GAMADV-X and GAMADV-XTD are based on a fork of Jay's code from way back but they are a complete rewrite and are now independent.

Ross

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