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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

I have been a user of Google for over a decade. I have used them for instructional purposes, in classroom settings, in business collaboration, and with family.

One recent addition (last 2 weeks) has added another feature to its arsenal. A HDD in the Cloud for its users. Since many of the developers here and users as well have Google IDs, we can now tap into using it for distribution and sharing of some of the personal development stuff we might want to pass on to our ranks. There are many other ways that this will be useful to most of us. Its FREE! And, you have total control of whatever you use your drive for...TOTAL CONTROL!!!

This is NOT a thread to steer anyone to Google. IT IS A THREAD to announce that should you have your GoogleID, you may use the new "Drive" feature of your ID for Puppy purposes more easily now.

To use your drive, sign in to your ID at [url]Docs.Google.com[/url] and notice the "Notice" at the top of your page.

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Lobster · Posted: Sun 03 Jun 2012, 00:57 Post subject:

Here is an example of usage for Puppy

This is a shared spreadsheet doc of peoples hardware statistics relating to Puppy . . . Smile

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjBlBdBw80-_dERaMmFZZ2xIVnctYWJmWklDMkhDbXc

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3613 Location: around the bend

looks like a fine place to hang your dirty washing. Cool

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217

It's supposed to be new, but upon going there, I found any docs I had opened or worked on stored there, including PDF's opened from gmail. I had no idea what it was storing.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1120 Location: Vienna Austria

I've been trying to set up a Linux client for Google Drive only today as it so happens.

As you may already know, there exists no official Google Drive client for Linux as yet - it's being worked on as we speak. The idea is that you can sync your Google Drive files with a local folder on your PC. In the case of Puppy, this folder could sit in /root, say.

What does exist though, is a third-party Linux client for Google Drive called Grive that works OK in Ubuntu 12.04.
At the moment it can only bi-directionally sync individual files and has (as yet), no auto-polling mechanism - not really a deal-breaker anyway.

I'll have a go at getting this to work in the just-released Precise Puppy 3.2.58 Beta if I can find a compatible binary package or the source code. It's a command-line-based tool basically at the moment, but easy to use nevertheless and most importantly - gets the job done.

It's would be a cool little tool to have available in Puppy Linux

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Makoto · Posted: Sun 03 Jun 2012, 16:14 Post subject:

Hmm... well, I've been looking for a decent place to store what programs I compile for other Puppy users to download (like my Pidgin packages for Puppy 4.3.1). Would Google's Drive be good for that, or would I run into problems down the road, for whatever reason?

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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

For $5 per YEAR (Yes, that is correct "per year") I can significantly increase my filespace!

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jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217