Connect to dropbox, onedrive, google drive

[Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Antuñano]

Hello,

I'm switching from windows to linux and I'm using Krusader as alternative to Total Commander. I wonder if there is a way to see the files and folders of dropbox, OneDrive and google drive in Krusader.

My apologies if this topic has already been addressed before.

Thanks in advance,

Miguel A. Gutierrez

[Yuri Chornoivan]

Hi,

That's definitely the place to ask such questions. ;)

1. Dropbox

It is enough to install the default Dropbox package and start its daemon:

https://www.dropbox.com/install

The folder with your data will be ~/Dropbox. To keep data syncing, just add ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd to your desktop autostart.

2. OneDrive

There is a OneDrive Linux client, which works very similar to Dropbox's one.

https://github.com/xybu/onedrive-d-old

3. Google Drive

The best clients are proprietary (and there is no official client from Google, just promises):

https://www.insynchq.com/

https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive

Free clients are not so cool:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/google-drive-clients-linux/

However, you can use Krusader command line to do the syncing manually through Rclone when you actually need it.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Yuri

[Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Antuñano]

Hi Yuri,

Thanks you very much for your answer. I haven't thought on downloading the clients of Dropbox or Drive, because I have another idea in my mind, but it is indeed a solution.

My original idea was something I achieved to do in Total Commander and also in Krusader, but in the later only with a University related Drive unit that uses webdav. It was really easy just to add the direction "webdav://drive.blablabla/whatever" to the Location Toolbar and it pop-up a window where I introduce user and password. And the I can see all the content of the remote unit without installing anything else. I added to BookMan so I have easy access to it.

Do you think there is a similar solution for the units mentioned before?

Thanks you very much. Best regards,

[Yuri Chornoivan]

Вівторок, 29 березня 2016 р. 16:56:53 EEST, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Antuñano
було написано таке:

> Hi Yuri,
>
> Thanks you very much for your answer. I haven't thought on
> downloading the clients of Dropbox or Drive, because I have
> another idea in my mind, but it is indeed a solution.
>
> My original idea was something I achieved to do in Total
> Commander and also in Krusader, but in the later only with a
> University related Drive unit that uses webdav. It was really
> easy just to add the direction
> "webdav://drive.blablabla/whatever" to the Location Toolbar and
> it pop-up a window where I introduce user and password. And the
> I can see all the content of the remote unit without installing
> anything else. I added to BookMan so I have easy access to it.
>
> Do you think there is a similar solution for the units mentioned before?
>
> Thanks you very much. Best regards,

Sure.

There are webdav solutions for Google Drive:

https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=8783

OneDrive:

http://blog.lazut.in/2012/12/skydrive-webdav-access.html

No free webdav solution for DropBox:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/62

Proprietary solution:

https://www.dropdav.com/

Or you can use kfilebox to access all DropBox features:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kdropbox/

[Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Antuñano]

Hi again Yuri,

Again, thanks you for the information.

I've fight with the OneDrive solution you proposed and I find a solution but its not so good: Using Rekonq browser I manage to see a folder of google drive but the problem is that i need to connect to hotmail using that browser each time i restart the computer.

Regarding Google Drive, i didn't find solution in the link you posted and neither in the internet (withour installing other software).

I'm considering trying total commander in wine emulator but this solution about rclone you mentioned... allows you to "see" the cloud files in krusader?

Regards,

[Yuri Chornoivan]

Субота, 23 квітня 2016 р. 04:18:11 EEST, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Antuñano
було написано таке:

> Hi again Yuri,
>
> Again, thanks you for the information.
>
> I've fight with the OneDrive solution you proposed and I find a
> solution but its not so good: Using Rekonq browser I manage to
> see a folder of google drive but the problem is that i need to
> connect to hotmail using that browser each time i restart the
> computer.
>
> Regarding Google Drive, i didn't find solution in the link you
> posted and neither in the internet (withour installing other
> software).
>
> I'm considering trying total commander in wine emulator but
> this solution about rclone you mentioned... allows you to "see"
> the cloud files in krusader?

Sure (I have tested just Google Drive and Dropbox).

What I did:

1. Downloaded rclone archive with binary from here:
http://rclone.org/downloads/

2. Unpacked rclone binary to /usr/local/bin

3. Used 'rclone config' to configure the cloud.

4. Cloned the drive to the local folder ('test' is a test folder in the
cloud, Google Drive this time):
rclone copy gdrive:test /home/yurchor/temp/test/

5. Added Krusader UserActions to sync with the following commands:
rclone sync gdrive:test /home/yurchor/temp/test/ (Pull from cloud)
rclone sync /home/yurchor/temp/test/ gdrive:test (Push to the cloud)

Everything works so far (as soon as I remember to sync ;) ).

Best regards,
Yuri