[Solved] Can't mount Google Drive

[FrankB616]

Used to use the following command to mount my GDrive in XFCE.

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google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/google-drive

Worked on Mint 19.1, but not on 19.3 Just seems to lock up the file manager.

Suggestions?

Thanks.

Frank.

[RonO]

Finding the same issue with Mint 20.1 XFCE.
Would really like to get this solved.
Anybody got any suggestions?

[FrankB616]

Well, then lets hope someone takes pity on us.

Frank.

[FrankB616]

OK, found the solution which is specific to XFCE and a couple of other DE's that don't have native tools to mount Google Drive. It can be done two ways, as noted in the link below.

When I upgraded to 20.1, I had forgotten that I needed the ocamlfuse PPA (which I lost during the upgrade) to make this work. Here is the full solution in a tutorial. I can confirm that it works just fine in XFCE. Just note that it is SLOW when retrieving a file list from a directory on Google Drive that contains a lot of files. The file manager has not locked up. Just give it time.

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/07/m ... -mate.html

I think I am going to try installing the Gnome dependencies and use the Gnome Control Center on my other machine just to be able to compare the two.

Frank.