Lots of lagging, severe latency & daily crashing, I've tried Nautilus & Nemo. Nautilus works better it appears than Nemo file manager though for some reason when accessing gDrive. None of this happened with google drive's own .exe software in Windows 7. It worked fast & wonderful, I rarely used gDrive's browser version, I only used the streamed mounted drive version on windows, it had many more benefits. Is there a way I can tell gnome my personal "Google API Client ID & Client Secret Code" to make it faster?
Nautilus is also often not responding merely when I cut & paste around 10 small files from my SSD to the google drive. See screenshot, also last photo is screenshot of my CPU, RAM & temperature gauges.
I haven't this problem, I log in with my Google account only on Firefox, I don't want Google on my laptop, my account only on the browser is enough. I wonder what's using up so much RAM…
@Luca_Pavan , using google drive in ur browser is very limiting & has disadvantages, lots of disadvantages compared to using a file manager, with windows OS file manager.
Some of the issues with Google Drive on Linux stem from what @337harvey touched on above.
Google has Proprietary code and while working with a Trillion Dollar company like Microsoft can make it easy... On Free Open Source, proprietary gets a lot more tricky.
I think most of what you describe is solvable. I am just inexperienced with Google Drive in general - much less using it on Nautilus - which is also a file manager I do not use.
Love having my options.
But others have and it has come up before and been solved before on this Forum. Have any forum searches yielded any help?
@337harvey , @Aravisian , @Storm,thanks for the comments. Maybe I should use a cloud service that actually is designed for use with linux. idk. I will last resort contact google, cuz they provide customer support.
If you choose Mega there's 2 .deb files to download, the app itself and the second is nautilus extension of mega, like right click to upload in menu etc.
@Storm , @337harvey , @Aravisian ,I have yet to even encrypt all my cloud data, which i need to do, in addition to finding a good cloud service too.
My main goal is to find a client side encryption service, not sure if mega allows me to store my keys on my own, or I must store my keys on their server.
Lastly, my goal is to find a way to client side encrypt everything, but also be able to seamlessly stream large videos, FLAC songs, and very large pdf's(high quality scans can go upwards of 300mb).
You can try rclone, it can connect your google drive to a folder on your pc, just like online accounts. Or if you want to have the files both on google drive and your pc, FreeFileSync can connect to google drive, then you can sync your data with it between your pc and the drive folder.
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