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Jan 25, 2024, 12:25:46 PM1/25/24
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<div>Insync is one of the best Google Drive alternatives for desktop clients on Linux. The widespread application is a feature-rich Google Drive copy with options allowing you to do anything just like on Google Drive. With its use, you can sync multiple accounts, share files, and receive desktop notifications.</div><div></div><div></div><div>OverGrive is also an excellent choice for anyone looking to enjoy Google Drive features but is on a Linux desktop. The Linux application lets users enjoy features such as file syncing, document sharing, and file conversion to different formats.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>download google drive desktop for linux</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD: https://t.co/Y44AfBAVgk </div><div></div><div></div><div>OverGrive also supports major Linux desktop environments, making it easy to install in various Linux distros. The Linux desktop environments making overGrive available are KDE, XFCE, Unity, and Gnome Shell.</div><div></div><div></div><div>GNOME Desktop users enjoy the convenience of an inbuilt Google Drive client (GNOME Online Accounts) for their Linux desktop versions. The application allows users to add their Google account to their GNOME online account under the settings section.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Congratulations with launch and right off the bat for the most important question: is there any way to sync files to Proton Drive from Linux desktop? I would really like to drop Dropbox and move to more private solution, without worrying about hosting my own server.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>If you want offline access you can add a tool like Insync (payware; multiple account support, desktop notification, symlink support), or Rclone (setup instructions; freeware; command-line to sync to Google Drive, but also Dropbox, Amazon S3, and OneDrive).</div><div></div><div></div><div>what i miss here, is a app or function to bind dropbox to a drive. meaning, to have access to the whole dropbox, without downloading it (it would not work anyway, if my migration is complete,it ends up at maybe 50 tb. in the next 6 months, (based on what my other drives use)</div><div></div><div></div><div>but dropbox,does not have any feature of that sort, the app for linux only offers selected sync, which is perfect,if you can prepare,or have a perma 1gbit, but if iam at a customer place,to setup a new system,or modify theirs , i kinda have no 1 gbit con.. and would need direct access on the fly.</div><div></div><div></div><div>the whole question has no influence on dropbox as itself, the service is great, i love the speed, right now i throw several terrabytes a day, at it,to get my whole stuff sorted from box n gdrive to dropbox. and i use 4 differend pages to shovel all the data, (like multcloud) , the only thing i am worried is, that i tried box n gdrive first, several years jumping thru hoops, to get my needs,and then its so simple, i wish i would have tried it sooner..nvm ,now iam here,and i have needs.. (space for now, access methods later)</div><div></div><div></div><div>So, just to make sure we're on the same page here, what you'd like to have is the ability to access the content of your Dropbox account locally on the drive itself, without having to download the app, right?</div><div></div><div></div><div>i have a drive,thats called Gdrive,(same for Pcloud) i can handle that like a typical drive (ssd,m.2,hdd), meaning i can use whichever app, like double commander, and just run thru my files and copy or edit right from there, and upload content in the right folders</div><div></div><div></div><div>and i wanne change one file, i can do that with double commander right away, if i have it on my Pcloud drive, but if i had it on dropbox,i would need to prepare, and check which customer it is, and sync that one folder, then change it, and place it back to his folder, thats quite a bit work. and one misstake would mean i would have to redo all,and check where i missplaced his file.. never happend so far, and i usually care too much to let this happen.</div><div></div><div></div><div>its basically just handling, and preparation , but you cannot sync the whole database, such large drives dont exist,as far as i know,and any laptop i use, has at best 8 tb m.2, meaning i would need to prep before customers happen,but from time to time,i get a info to change XY at company Z and then i need that data asap.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I wonder if Proton are trying to avoid supporting Linux desktop apps for Proton Drive as Linux users tend to be more tech savvy and have NAS/servers/DIY backups and so would use more data on average... Which may hurt their profit margins if they only make Drive profits from the average users used storage amount?</div><div></div><div></div><div>I wrote a small program that calculates the Fibonacci sequence in the C programming language and wanted to move the fibo.c file to my regular C drive. I wrote it using Nano in Ubuntu running on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. When I try using the cp command to copy the file to /mnt/c which is where my C drive is, I get the error:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hi,</div><div></div><div>The app simply does not work.</div><div></div><div>When i try to browse for the masterkey which is located in my google drive, cryptomator wont allow me to browse the drive when I try to add the vault.</div><div></div><div>Any one else have this issue?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Then only that shortcut disappears. This always happens. So whenever I open any drive all of them would be there in desktop. What I need is for this not to happen. What can I do to achieve that? Can anyone help?</div><div></div><div></div><div>The drive does NOT report his sector size so hdparm and all other tools suggest that it is 512 byte (You see this with hdparm -I /dev/sda), what will cause miss aligned filesystem blocks like described in the article above what happens with Windows XP.</div><div></div><div>More testing</div><div></div><div></div><div>For using WDxxEARS with linux no special software is required. But it is absolutely necessary to partition your HDD correctly. Under Windows XP or under linux using fdisk or parted with default settings WDxxEARS HDDs get partitioned incorrectly. To test, how and where your partitions got created, you can use fdisk:</div><div></div><div></div><div>Insync allows users to access all their files on Google Drive locally in the Linux file manager. Users can access multiple google drive accounts and sync their data across multiple devices from Linux.</div><div></div><div></div><div>overGrive is a Google Drive desktop client for Linux and a less costly alternative to Insync. However, overGrive is still a paid-for application. Users are given a 14-day trial period after paying a one-time purchase fee of $9.99.</div><div></div><div></div><div>As a Google Drive desktop client, overGrive allows Linux users to automatically sync Google Drive to their computer and also auto-sync or Backup local files to Google Drive. It also supports syncing shared files and folders, synching multiple accounts, excluding files to synch by their type, and controlling how items are removed from Google drive.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Rclone is a free and open-source cloud storage Linux desktop client that supports the managing of files on cloud storage platforms such as Google Drive. Although it has an experimental web-based graphical user interface, Rclone is a command line program and is ideal for Linux users comfortable working from the terminal.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Google Drive is a very useful tool for any user, particularly developers. However, even though Google is yet to make its desktop client allow Linux users to use directly on their systems, there exist amazing alternatives that allow users to utilize their Google Drive right from their Linux systems.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is the second part to my data archiving efforts, the first part was usingM-DISC's which you can read about HERE [ -pictures-to-m/]The Tape HardwareI have been looking for a tape drive or library for a...</div><div></div><div></div><div>Tape drives are literally went on their way to the dinosaurs.</div><div></div><div>Some drives you could get with the ide interface but most were scsi.</div><div></div><div>The ide ones often worked with windows but usually you had to install a driver to even detect them.</div><div></div><div>Even when they were detected by bios they could only be accesses through the backup and restore software.</div><div></div><div>They were not searchable like other media.</div><div></div><div>You could also use the ide to sata adapter.</div><div></div><div></div><div>While they did indeed store a large amount of data they were damn slow to access.</div><div></div><div>Tapes themselves were susceptible to magnetic fields and could degrade over time, but usually failure resulted in wear and tear.</div><div></div><div>It was crucial to keep the heads, rollers, and capstan clean.</div><div></div><div>The other foible, belt wear!</div><div></div><div>Unless you got one with direct drive capstain you had to deal with stretched belts and dry rot.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I was looking at LTO-6 cause it fits my current 3TB size quite nicely without compression. In 2 years that would be just 2 drives uncompressed or 1 compressed. I always feel a bit weird about using compression in backups cause it might make recovery a little harder if a little piece of it gets corrupted, is the built in compression something that has these kinds of issues?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Cons: susceptibility to magnetic fields, fragility of the media, ( heat, cold, wearing, stretching, tearing, wrinkling, etc)</div><div></div><div>Slow speed.</div><div></div><div>Excessive cost for media, and drives.</div><div></div><div>Maintenance expenses.</div><div></div><div>And lastly the magnetic fields of the recorded data itself will fade over time if not refreshed periodically.</div><div></div><div></div><div>When you wish to mount a network location, you can of course create a mapped network drive in Windows and mount that as indicated above. However, it's also possible to mount them directly using a UNC path:</div><div></div><div></div><div>I just ran across this issue recently where I have a Mac host running a vmware fusion with windows 10 installed as a guest OS. I installed WSL (ubuntu) in the windows 10. I am sharing a folder on my Mac (/Public) with all my fusion guest O/S, and it works seemlessly with any linux/bsd guest OSes. On Windows 10, the network drive for the shared folder is \vmware-host\Shared Folder\Public\ and is accessible from the windows 10, and is also mounted on Z: drive as well.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The mount command is successful, but in fact the mount "failed".You can't see the content of the folder /mnt/z.The mount works well with other network drives AS LONG AS the filesystem is a windows (NTFS, FAT32, etc) filesystem.Since the file system I'm trying to use is apple file system (apfs), the drvfs cannot use it. It will likewise fail if the underlying filesystem you are trying to mount is linux (ext2, ext3, ...) or network nfs/samba type. This drvfs will only understand windows native drvie format.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hi, so i use this USB hard drive on many different devices including my arch desktop. I usually plug it in and then just mount it using the KDE desktop. This method has worked for me for a while now but yesterday it suddenly stopped working. Maybe its after an update i did? Trying to click "Mount and Open" and it will fail to do so. If i try to do it subsequent times there is no response at all. I then tried to actually use the mount command and it surprisingly works fine. Im able to look at everything in the drive when mounting through that method.</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>
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