Mount your Google Drive storage and access it with Dolphin

[oshunluvr]

Found this recently and thought others might find it useful/ I have Google Fi for my cell and they include 100GB online storage. Since Box dropped davfs support it's no lnger very useful from the desktop so I went looking for other options and found this:
How to mount your Google Drive.

The instructions include how to do this on Windows also but TL/DR so here's the needed steps boiled down:

1) Install ocamlfuse:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
sudo apt update && sudo apt install google-drive-ocamlfuse

2) Run ocamlfuse in the command line:
google-drive-ocamlfuse
A sign-in window will open in your browser automatically where the user needs to sign-in and provide required access.
Authorize the ocamlfuse system to access files and folders on your google drive.

3) Make a mount point for Google drive:
mkdir ~/Gdrive

4) Mount google drive:
google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/googledrive

You can now open the Gdrive folder with Dolphin and access or add/delete files to/from your Google drive

Unmounting can be done with:
fusermount -u ~/Gdrive

but at least here, plain ole' umount works:
umount ~/Gdrive

[claydoh]

Normally, I'd suggest the native KDE tool (kio-gdrive -- may need to be installed) via System Settings >>Online Accounts, but it looks like this recently broke. My existing account still works, but adding a new one won't, or adding my account on a different computer. Seems to be an issue across Plasma versions and distros.
I recall similar issues with the ocamlfuse tool in the distant past, but the devs were quick to get on it. Who knows when the kio-gdrive folks will get to fixing this current breakage.

I have been using the kio-gdrive option for a few years now. But it isn't useful right now for those wanting to start using it.

[oshunluvr]

Yeah, I'm aware of all that, thus offering this alternative. I'm hoping it won't break as often or at least the dev will be quicker to fix it.

[brianharr]

get this when I try;

E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu mantic Release' does not have
a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

[claydoh]

get this when I try;

E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu mantic Release' does not have
a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

The maintainer of the ppa hasn't created packages for Mantic yet.