GCSF is a virtual filesystem that allows users to mount their Google Drive account locally and interact with it as a regular disk partition. You can find out more in this paper.
Installation
Make sure you have the fuse library installed (for macOS users: osxfuse; on Ubuntu, the libfuse-dev package). GCSF requires the stable branch of the Rust programming language, which can be installed following the instructions on rustup.rs.
Afterwards, you can simply run:
This will generate the gcsf binary in $HOME/.cargo/bin. Make sure that this directory is in your PATH variable: export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin
Alternatively, you can download a release binary for your platform.
Configuration
GCSF will attempt to create a configuration file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gcsf/gcsf.toml, which is usually defined as $HOME/.config/gcsf/gcsf.toml.
Usage
You can now find the contents of your Drive account in /mnt/gcsf:
Using Ranger:
Or Thunar:
Contributing
Contributions are welcome. You can also help by reporting or fixing bugs.