How To Mount Google Drive Locally As Virtual File System

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https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-mount- ... -in-linux/

Rclone

It is not just for Google drive, Rclone will support a lot of other cloud storage providers.

How to install Rclone :
$ curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

Configure Rclone to access Google drive...

Further reading :
Rclone 1.49 Adds Google Photos Backend, New Web UI
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/08/r ... ckend.html

RcloneTray
Easily Mount Rclone Remotes On Demand Using A GUI

Using this Electron tray application, you'll be able to quickly mount Rclone remotes, open the mount location using your default file manager, and perform other operations.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/07/r ... motes.html

AppImage :
https://github.com/dimitrov-adrian/Rclo ... 4.AppImage

Deb :
https://github.com/dimitrov-adrian/Rclo ... _amd64.deb

Rclone Browser Fork
Rclone Browser is a Qt5 GUI for Rclone that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. The tool exposes many of the Rclone features to an easy to use interface. Using it, you can browse and transfer file from / to cloud storage services (even encrypted), perform file operations like rename, move, or delete, mount the storage with the click of a button (on Linux and Mac), and even stream videos hosted in the cloud using VLC or mpv.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/09/r ... s-and.html
Download :
https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBr ... _amd64.deb
Cloud Storage GUI Rclone Browser 1.6.0 Adds New Options, Fixes
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/10/r ... tions.html

Cryptomator
Cloud Files Encryption App Cryptomator
Cryptomator is a Java tool to encrypt cloud storage files for services that don't support client-side encryption, which runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. It works with cloud storage services that synchronize with a local directory, like Dropbox or Google Drive.
AppImage :
https://dl.bintray.com/cryptomator/cryp ... 4.AppImage
To make it executable : chmod a+x cryptomator-1.4.11-x86_64.AppImage
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/07/c ... mator.html


How secure are Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and iCloud?
https://proprivacy.com/guides/how-secur ... ud-storage
How To Speed Up Google Drive OCamlFUSE (Tool To Mount Google Drive On Linux)
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/06/h ... lfuse.html
MEGA cloud storage
MEGA has changed quite a bit since its inception when free users were permitted to store 50GB of data. However, users can still enjoy the service for free and they can store up to 15GB of data which is still generous considering you don’t have to pay.
https://proprivacy.com/cloud/mega-cloud-storage-review
pCloud storage
Being based in Switzerland is thought to be good for privacy compared to many other locations, and the fact that this service can be used for free makes it an interesting proposition.
pCloud was first launched in 2013 and it is available for all popular platforms via software that you can download to your laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone device. It is even available for Linux distros; which is rarer. In addition to locally installed clients, users can opt to use pCloud via an online web client that runs in their browser.
Subscribers have the option to use the service for free, or via a monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscription plan.
https://proprivacy.com/cloud/pcloud-review

Joplin
If you want to wean yourself off Google products such as Google Keep to store notes, lists and to-do lists, then Joplin could be an alternative.
An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities.
The notes can be synchronised with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV or the file system (for example with a network directory).

If it works with your distribution (it has been tested on Ubuntu, Fedora, Gnome and Mint), the recommended way is to use this script as it will handle the desktop icon too:
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laure ... _update.sh | bash
https://joplinapp.org/

Further reading :
Rclone to GDrive
https://paulmellors.blogspot.com/2019/1 ... drive.html