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When sharing files, I use three main services. I use [Firefox Send]() and [KeybaseFS]() to share one-off and large files with friends, and I use [Google Drive]() to store some personal files, and for everything school-related (I don't get a choice about this). For the first two services, sharing a file is as simple as calling [`ffsend`](https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend) or moving a local file into my [kbfs mountpoint](), and I am done. Google Drive, on the other hand, the process isn't as easy. While some Linux distributions have Google Drive integration out of the box (I miss daily-driving [ChromiumOS]()), Linux users generally have to go to `drive.google.com`, and deal with the Google Drive webapp. Not sure if this is an "only me" problem, but whenever I need to quickly make a change to a document through the webapp, It decides to stop working.
When sharing files, I use three main services. I use [Firefox Send](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Send) and [KeybaseFS](https://book.keybase.io/docs/files) to share one-off and large files with friends, and I use [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com) to store some personal files, and for everything school-related (I don't get a choice about this). For the first two services, sharing a file is as simple as calling [`ffsend`](https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend) or moving a local file into my kbfs mountpoint, and I am done. Google Drive, on the other hand, the process isn't as easy. While some Linux distributions have Google Drive integration out of the box (I miss daily-driving [ChromiumOS](https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os)), Linux users generally have to go to `drive.google.com`, and deal with the Google Drive webapp. Not sure if this is an "only me" problem, but whenever I need to quickly make a change to a document through the webapp, It decides to stop working.
I really like the Keybase approach of mounting remote storage as a "network drive" on my laptop, and wanted to do something similar for Google Drive. This is where a great tool called [`rclone`](https://rclone.org) comes in to play. Rclone is a very easy-to-use command-line application for working with cloud storage. I originally learned about it when I used to host this website on [DigitalOcean Spaces](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/) a few years ago. Out of the box, Rclone supports [many cloud providers](https://rclone.org/#providers), including Google Drive!