Google Drive VS drive-cli

Google Drive Reviews

1. FaizaAdeel    

   Owner at Peacock.collection111 | 6 months ago
   Excellent Cloud storage

   Well first of all its easy to carry as its in my mobile device plus laptop. File sharing is not only secure but also easy to use. giving me all kind of access to google doc, google presentation, data and etc. working on big projects with big teams is being made easy by google drive.

   🏁 Competitors: Dropbox

   👍 Pros:    Storing and collaboration is best feature for me

   👎 Cons:    Nothing, so far

drive-cli Reviews

Google Drive mentions (2)

• Google Drive is syncing stuff from my trash - anyone else noticing this? (Ventura 13, latest beta)

  I'm running the latest beta of Ventura and the Google Drive sync app installed from google.com/drive. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to use Google Drive for backup files

  Is Google Drive good for backing up files? Safety of personal Data loss is important, choosing Google Drive as means to Store files and folder is key to preventing loss of Data. Backup files to Google Drive are very useful for to managed personal files and making files easier to share with family and friends. How to use Google Drive for backup. Source: almost 2 years ago

drive-cli mentions (6)

• 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

  I just want to collect the major options for Google Drive on Linux in a single comment, since a few options are scattered around: Insync works well, and it's 50% off for a couple more days: https://www.insynchq.com/ Not affiliated, but $15 is not a lot to pay, as opposed to waiting for something that probably won't happen. Rclone has support for Google Drive, and it's open source: https://rclone.org/ There's a... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Has anyone used rclone to get their Google Photos?

  Run this command to download (into your home directory): $ mkdir -p ~/.local/bin $ cd ~/.local/bin $ wget -c "https://github.com/odeke-em/drive/releases/download/v0.4.0/drive_linux" -O "drive-google" $ chmod a+x ./drive-google. Source: about 2 years ago

• Has anyone used rclone to get their Google Photos?

  I personally use this project https://github.com/odeke-em/drive for syncing to/from google-drive. Source: about 2 years ago

• Any Google Drive sync that works for accessing another computer's local files?

  I think the dolphin file manager has Google drive access built in. But it requires the kio-gdrive package to be installed. If I am not mistaken it also does not do a sync to the local file system, it just allows for more convenient access. But this might be more like something, you are looking for: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive but I haven't tried this one out myself. Source: about 2 years ago

• I tried to move entirely to Linux supporting programs before I migrate from Windows. Here's how it went

  If you want a free google drive client for Linux this project should work ( I used it to sync my google drive files while in school) https://github.com/odeke-em/drive. Source: over 2 years ago