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I may or may not have been the guy who helped the guy translate that in french, actually ;) Didn't it stop working when Google changed the Drive APIs? It's been replaced with overGrive, IIRC. Couldn't get it to work on Arch though, because of dependencies named differently. I communicated with the developer back then to try and make it work - seems like he figured it out himself since then. Might get down to making an AUR package like I was supposed to do when I got it to work!
I use overGrive. It's not free, but works quite well (not perfectly). It's well worth the $4.99 to support the development as that's a lifetime licence and devs need to eat!
There's a free trial.
You will probably get the best experience with overGrive. Instruction links are at the bottom of the website I linked, and you can use the Ubuntu option to get it installed.
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Consider using Overgrive. It's not free, but has a free trial period. Tried different solutions myself. The built in Online Accounts didn't work for me. Too slow and instable connections. Happy with overgrive now for less then $ 5.
I've been using Overgrive (https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive) for a couple years now, Very happy with it, it costs $5 one time, but IMO it was well worth it.
I am using overgrive for that. Look: https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive
Licenses start at 5$ if I remember correctly.
Overgrive has a few issues for me, mainly it sometimes forgets my credentials on my notebook. But other than that, it works like a charm.
<em>overGrive</em> appears to be the successor of the no longer maintained <em>Grive Tools</em>.
With GNOME (Ubuntu's default DE) you apparently should be able to easily access Google Drive, too (see, e. g., https://linuxconfig.org/google-drive-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux).
After installing armbian on it you can install overdrive https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive/installation-instructions-raspberrypi as google drive sync and and an smb client to see it in your homenetwork.
Your device -> to opi usb hdd-> google drive and the way back.
I've used overGrive for the past few months without any big hiccups. It has autosync and locally stores the files, which I prefer to other solutions. It isn't free, it costs $4.99 for a license, but there is a 14 day trial to see if it works for you.
A couple of years ago I got sick of all the runaround that had to happen to get Google Drive on my linux machine. So i downloaded OverGrive: https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive
Automatically syncs both ways, runs on startup, and you can selectively sync folders. It's $5, and it was totally worth the expenditure