How to Mount a Google Drive Locally with Rclone

Google Drive is nice, but no one wants to use their web interface as bulk storage. Thankfully, Rclone makes direct access to Google Drive seamless. It's free, open source, and multi-platform.

In this video, CBT Nuggets trainer Shawn Powers shows you how to quickly set up Rclone and mount it on the local filesystem to use Google Drive locally.

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[xWolleSch]

This is the best guide I have found on this topic. Ok, a bit much enthusiasm. But the step by step instructions lead to the goal and what more could you want. There is nothing too much and nothing too little. Short, concise, effective! Thank you!!!

[EdwardCrosby]

Hey, Shawn. Thanks so much for this video. Incredibly helpful. And thanks for the continued content you post on YouTube.

[bradydyson]

Oh my god, thank you! Short, sweet and to the point.

[McDaniel]

Thank you so much u have no idea how long I've looking for this

[phillipcifone]

Thank you, this is really cool and helpful.

One thing to note, with mounting a google drive remote, gdocs dont seems to work correctly, according to the website it's a known issue. Sync/move/copy works fine. And with images (I'm a photographer) it's still super helpful. I wish I learned rclone sooner. Thanks for the super easy guide!

[helmutwalle]

Many thanks for the quick tutorial; I love your enthusiastic and concise style.

[jiangpengli]

Thank you so much. This is exactly what I am looking for.❤

[OrkUrgush]

Thank you Shawn, very helpfull video, it worked like a charm.

[GALAXYXD]

thank you so much, it helped me a lot!

[tyser]

Thank you so much for this video man, you saved a Linux newbie today

[lithox]

Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for, I can now sync up files between desktop and laptop. On another note, let's say I have an .odt file, my workaround for the read-only nature of the folder is to copy the file into a local folder, make changes and then replace the old file in the mounted folder with the new one: is this the only way or can I make it so I can open the .odt file straight from the mounted folder and make changes that sync up immediately?

[NaimHasim]

Hey sir, love your charismatic voices XD

[MrDeviousdom]

Do you have any experience with creating encrypted remotes to perform local encrypted backups? I've tried everything and I can't get the thing to work.

[kansen-sei]

I noticed you're using Daemon would you recommend using that as a storage server? I understand you use it to mount Images such as HDD and games, as I use to play around with Daemon Tool for mounting game images when I was younger, Since then I had forgotten about using it.

[daleseward]

After restarting my computer I don't see anything listed in the gdrive. Is there a sync or autosync that I should do?

[fasi]

i am constantly on the road, with sometimes not internet connection available to me, is it possible for this to download the files in local cache when i dont have internet, so i can work on them and later when i get connectivity update the files on the cloud drive?

[sigitasn]

Wow thats very handy tutorials. I got ignored rclone all times instead trying not very good solutions like proprietary software etc. Thank you.

[scottwilson]

SO you had to install macFUSE correct? I have tones of issues with he mout command because it gets macFUSE errors I am running macOS 12.

[craigmilne]

Tried to do the same in video, done everything but google drive doesn't show when df-h google drive doesnt show online my own hardrives

[cmaxz]

Hey sorry if this question sounds a bit silly. Is it really just syncing (similar to shortcut) with the gdrive or is it downloading all those files and put it in your local machine?