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Killing off nautilus at the terminal was the only option on one occasion (killall -HUP nautilus). For me, Nautilus even seemed to lock up or show zero files when I knew that wasn’t the case. So, be aware that performance might not be ideal when you browse some of your larger folders. Fortunately, every change you make is synchronised, including file deletion, copy and add. This is a problem when you find out that none of the content is locally stored offline. Browsing through the folders can take quite a while. I have a lot of stuff in my Google Drive account. Click on that and you’ll start to see your files.Ĭlick on the below images to see the steps. It should have your Google account username. By default this option is selected as ‘On’.įinally, if you open the File Manager (Nautilus), you’ll see a new entry (most likely below ‘Trash). You can see that one of the options is ‘Files’. Scroll to the bottom of that dialogue and press ‘Allow’.Ī few moments later, you will see the original ‘Online Accounts’ box, however you’ll see it now has your Google account in there. Once you have entered your Gmail address/username and password, you will be prompted to give Ubuntu / GNOME permission to use your Google account. You’ll next be asked to enter your google credentials, go ahead and fill them in. You’ll see another dialogue box come up with a whole bunch of cloud services. Unless you have set up online accounts before, this should be a relatively spartan box. Now onto the fun stuff! Click on the Online Accounts icon. You are now ready to continue the same steps as a usual GNOME user. You should only see one resulting Settings icon, as per the screenshot to the right. Confusing! To make sure you get the correct settings tool, click once again on the task launcher icon and start typing gnome-settings. Note that the Ubuntu Unity settings icon and the GNOME settings tool icon is exactly the same by default.

#Amazon drive desktop app uses too much disk install#

This will install the necessary GNOME control panels: sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accountsĪs requested, enter your password and type Y to continue when asked. Next, enter the following command in the terminal window. Type in Terminal and you’ll see the Terminal app running.

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Your mileage may vary depending upon what software you have installed:įirstly, click on the task launcher icon (the brown swirling Ubuntu icon at the top left of your screen). If you are using the regular vanilla (Unity) Ubuntu 16.10, and not Ubuntu GNOME, or another Gnome based linux distro, or if you are using an older (previous to GNOME 3.18) version of GNOME, you’ll need to follow this first step. Initial setup (only necessary for users of Vanilla/Unity Ubuntu, not Ubuntu GNOME or other GNOME based distros) If you use vanilla Ubuntu, you’ll need to Install the Gnome Control Center package first Note that whilst this guide was written with Ubuntu in mind, you can also do it with any Linux distro that uses the Gnome desktop. If you are using 16.04, you can still do it, however you’ll need to go through a few hoops first. Believe it or not, this is pretty much a brand new feature for Gnome so if you are using Ubuntu, you’ll need the latest version of Ubuntu (16.10 or later) to do this.

#Amazon drive desktop app uses too much disk how to#

The choice is yours, vive la Linux freedom! Using Google Drive Nativelyįirstly, lets focus on how to use Google Drive the ‘official’ way. We will also be covering a third party tool called RCloneBrowser which supports OneDrive and Dropbox as well as Google Drive, so you can choose whether you’d like to use the new ‘native’ inbuilt support for Google Drive, or use a third party tool. However since version 3.18, the GNOME desktop has inbuilt support for Google Drive ‘files’. It’s been possible to use it in the past using third party apps like inSync or the more basic Gdrive. Google Drive hasn’t been supported on Linux officially, well, ever….

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