How to access google drive in ubuntu

Today we bring you the new way to access Google Drive in Ubuntu. As many of you know, Google Drive is the most important cloud storage server today. It started with a capacity of 15 GB of cloud storage backed by Microsoft's servers and which is also launched for free.

The main purpose of creating this cloud is for users to be able to save everything they can think of without worrying about the capacity of their machines.

However, Linux did not have the advantage of having this opportunity and therefore those people who had this operating system would not be kind enough to use this storage medium.

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However GNOME 3.18 in its new update has the ability to access Google Drive files from this operating system. Obviously this is a very interesting and useful feature for Linux users.

We recommend reading the Quick Guide to Basic Commands for Ubuntu.

Now, Ubuntu 16.04 users did not have access to owning Nautilus 3.14 and not 3.18, but it is already known that it is not necessary to have that version in order to have this Google Drive utility.

The only thing that must be installed is the GNOME control center and in the packages that bring online accounts, you must add the Google account and this problem is solved immediately.

sudo apt install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts

In the center of the GNOME dashboard you will find the online accounts icon and this option will be able to add a new account, where you must give GNOME the permissions to access it and thus recover and edit the existing files.

The only detail to take into account is that the files are being stored correctly and in the correct location, the rest works exactly the same as from other operating systems.