Chris Mills

#LinuxMint and #LinuxMusicProduction friends. I have a quandary. I like using Google Drive to store some of my shared data on, but this aspect of my workflow is not going well. Un-mounting my Google Drive causes my PC to be fast and lovely.

I tried using the network accounts to see my Google Drive, and this does work, but with #Blender I am shown the machine names for everything and none of my folder names are displayed correctly in Blender. Everywhere it is fine.

#rClone, or the way I have it set up on my PC is awful (I'm using free access because I can't afford a paid Google auth key for this). It causes applications to launch slowly. It causes Nemo to think it has crashed while Google Drive links take *forever* to update. And yet Blender can see this and it allows me to access (after an interminable wait) my project data.

Frustrated in New Zealand.

Solved: don’t use clone to Google Drive as I had been trying. Will detail in a reply.

May 3 at 3:15amWeb
Show threadChris Mills6d ago
Is there a way to get Blender to display file paths through #Linux #NetworkAccount drives that is human readable?
Show threadBenjamin6d ago

@ambientspace I can't test this out since the Online Accounts Drive mounting seems broken in KDE at the moment, but you could probably setup a symbolic link in your home folder for it.

How's it showing up at the moment, like a gdrive:/ path or something?

Show threadChris Mills6d ago
@BenjaminNelan outside of Blender it looks human readable and is fine. From within Blender's file browser I get a each folder with an alpha numeric hash that look like this (different unique string for each folder name with common elements that are probably my ID and I have altered in this example) "2dGJ-412aLLIWantIsToReadTheseqEAztz2KofsBcqB5"
Show threadChris Mills6d ago

I have more or less followed the default process of setting up rclone as is shown in this slighly ponderous YT video (clear, but slow to present)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFCYXBBRJz4

I have created a restart crontab to run the mount script, but the video shows the use of an autostart script. In either case the actual command run is the same.

Why is #rclone so very slow and laggy and causing issues? Is it because I am not shovelling money into the Google engine room boilers like coal is going out of style?

Mount Google Drive in Linux with RCLONE

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Show threadChris Mills5d ago

My solution:
I removed #rclone from my #LinuxMint PC and it is much happier for it (and so am I). Somehow, asking rclone to talk to Google Drive with default application access meant it was slow and frustrating.

I've moved my #Blender3D projects back to my local drive and will simply log into Windows periodically to back up all my work files to #BackBlaze. This works fine with the resources I have to hand and have already paid for.

Someday I will de-Google and I can see heading to #myKsuite on #infomaniak for this.

Show threadelsemusic6d ago
@ambientspace I pay around NZD150 a year for a shared hosting account I can use for these sorts of things. It's an Aotearoa New Zealand company, although I think the server is in Sydney.
Show threadChris Mills6d ago
@elsemusic who is providing this service?
Show threadelsemusic6d ago
@ambientspace Web Hosting NZ.