Two of the more commonly used cloud storage services for personal use are Google Drive and Dropbox. Either one can be a suitable choice for storing personal files using free or paid plans. That said, Google Drive, despite long-festering promises by Google to provide a non-browser-based file client for Linux users, requires a manual overhead to manage files through its Web browser-only interface. Coming to the rescue are a variety of free and low-cost commercial solutions for Linux users to sync files automatically.
I've been using insync for seamless Google Drive synchronization on my Manjaro system since 2017. After the latest upgrade (to kernel 5.2.2-1-MANJARO) insync stopped working. Even if I try to launch it manually, it quits without an error message.
Because insync is a paid product, I reached out to the vendor (Insynchq Pte Ltd). Their verbatim response was, "This is currently out of our control since Insync's Arch builds are maintained by the AUR. With that, we highly recommend users to contact the package maintainer or the AUR regarding this." Why did I pay for a product if (contrary to their own SLA) it's not supported?
Now they're saying they can't issue a refund because "PayPal does not allow for refunds beyond 90 days."
I've had enough of them!
An update to my story: today I heard back from the vendor, who gave me instructions to resolve the problem, and it has been working flawlessly for me ever since.
I also recently encountered this problem (DropBox) and
MEGASink in this case helped me - almost on all OS you can install the application itself and the extension for Nautilus. So with the help of MegaSink, the memory itself was unloaded - I only synchronized what I often use and change, and everything else lies in the cloud itself, not on the computer.
How to Sync Google Drive on Linux
Posted by: Jack M. Germain June 12, 2019 12:16 PMTwo of the more commonly used cloud storage services for personal use are Google Drive and Dropbox. Either one can be a suitable choice for storing personal files using free or paid plans. That said, Google Drive, despite long-festering promises by Google to provide a non-browser-based file client for Linux users, requires a manual overhead to manage files through its Web browser-only interface. Coming to the rescue are a variety of free and low-cost commercial solutions for Linux users to sync files automatically.
Because insync is a paid product, I reached out to the vendor (Insynchq Pte Ltd). Their verbatim response was, "This is currently out of our control since Insync's Arch builds are maintained by the AUR. With that, we highly recommend users to contact the package maintainer or the AUR regarding this." Why did I pay for a product if (contrary to their own SLA) it's not supported?
Now they're saying they can't issue a refund because "PayPal does not allow for refunds beyond 90 days."
I've had enough of them!
MEGASink in this case helped me - almost on all OS you can install the application itself and the extension for Nautilus. So with the help of MegaSink, the memory itself was unloaded - I only synchronized what I often use and change, and everything else lies in the cloud itself, not on the computer.