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Fork of [google-drive-ocamlfuse](https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse) to use [profuse](https://github.com/dsheets/profuse) Consistent syntax is not GitHub's strong suit.

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FUSE filesystem over Google Drive

=================================



**google-drive-ocamlfuse** is a FUSE filesystem backed by Google Drive,

written in OCaml. It lets you mount your Google Drive on Linux.



### Features



* Full read/write access to ordinary files and folders

* Read-only access to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides (exported to

  configurable formats)

* Multiple account support

* Duplicate file handling

* Access to trash (`.Trash` directory)



### Resources



* [Homepage](http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore.org/)

* [Wiki](https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki): includes

  installation instructions, and more details about configuration, and

  authorization



### Authorization



Please be sure to have a look at the

[authorization](https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki/Authorization)

page, to understand how the authorization process works, and to discover all

the available options.



Getting started

---------------



### Installation



I've uploaded .deb packages to my [PPA](https://launchpad.net/~alessandro-strada/+archive/ppa),

for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04. In order to to install it, use the commands below:



    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa

    $ sudo apt-get update

    $ sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse



For other installation options, please refer to the [wiki](https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki/Installation).



How to build

------------



### Requirements



* [OCaml][] >= 3.12.0

* [Findlib][] >= 1.2.7

* [ocamlfuse][] >= 2.7.1

* [gapi-ocaml][] >= 0.2.1

* [sqlite3-ocaml][] >= 1.6.1



[OCaml]: http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/release.en.html

[Findlib]: http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html/

[ocamlfuse]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocamlfuse/

[gapi-ocaml]: http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/gapi-ocaml/

[sqlite3-ocaml]: https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/sqlite3-ocaml



### Configuration and installation



To build the executable, run



    $ ocaml setup.ml -configure

    $ ocaml setup.ml -build



To install it, run (as root, if your user doesn't have enough privileges)



    $ ocaml setup.ml -install



To uninstall anything that was previously installed, execute



    $ ocaml setup.ml -uninstall



### Usage



The first time, you can run `google-drive-ocamlfuse` without parameters:



    $ google-drive-ocamlfuse



This command will create the default application directory

(`~/.gdfuse/default`), containing the configuration file `config` (see the

[wiki

page](https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki/Configuration)

for more details about configuration). And it will start a web browser to

obtain authorization to access your Google Drive. This will let you modify

default configuration before mounting the filesystem.



Then you can mount the filesystem:



    $ google-drive-ocamlfuse mountpoint



If you have more than one account, you can run:



    $ google-drive-ocamlfuse -label label [mountpoint]



Using `label` to distinguish different accounts. The program will use the

directory `~/.gdfuse/label` to host configuration, application state, and file

cache. No file is shared among different accounts, so you can have a different

configuration for each one.



To unmount the filesystem, issue this command:



    $ fusermount -u mountpoint



### Troubleshooting



This application is still under testing, so there are probably bugs to

discover and fix. To be extra sure, if you want, you can mount the filesystem

in read-only mode, modifying the configuration (see the

[documentation](https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki/Configuration)),

to avoid any write attempt to the server. Anyway, the `rm` command will simply

trash your file, so you should always be able to rollback any changes. If you

have problems, you can turn on debug logging:



    $ google-drive-ocamlfuse -debug mountpoint



In `~/.gdfuse/default` you can find `curl.log` that will track every request

to the Google Drive API, and `gdfuse.log` that will log FUSE operations and

cache management. If something goes wrong, you can try clearing the cache,

with this command:



    $ google-drive-ocamlfuse -cc



If something still doesn't work, try starting from scratch removing everything

in `~/.gdfuse/default`. In this case you will need to reauthorize the

application.



Note that in order to reduce latency, the application will query the server

and check for changes only every 60 seconds (configurable). So, if you make a

change to your documents (server side), you won't see it immediately in the

mounted filesystem.



Note also that Google Documents will be exported read-only.



### Support



If you have questions, suggestions or want to report a problem, you can post

to this [mailing

list](https://lists.forge.ocamlcore.org/mailman/listinfo/gdfuse-devel). Or you

may want to open an

[issue](https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/issues) on github.