Where are the files in Google Drive?

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I had rclone all setup and working fine. Then Google changed something with the credentials and it stopped working.

I've now got it working again, but I don't know where the files are being copied to. If I login to Google drive the files are not being transferred anywhere into that account.

So, how do you find out where the files are going to in Google Drive?

Commands:
ls -l localfolder
rclone -v sync -u --exclude ".*" localfolder gdrive:/shiraz
rclone ls gdrive:/shiraz

They produce the same results, as expected.

But these are different to the "shiraz" folder when I login to Google Drive in the browser. Anything I put in the "shiraz" folder in Google Drive does not appear in "rclone ls gdrive:/shiraz".

Here's my config:
[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id = 123445566675-hidden.apps.googleusercontent.com
client_secret = Vhidden-4Vx
scope = drive
token = {"access_token":"hidden","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"hidden","expiry":"2019-06-07T15:41:24.038863865+10:00"}
service_account_file = /home/hidden/.google-service-account.json

Here's the json file:
{
"type": "service_account",
"project_id": "clever-gear-1234",
"private_key_id": "hidden",
"private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nhidden\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
"client_email": "file-copying@clever-gear-1234.iam.gserviceaccount.co m",
"client_id": "12345656hidden",
"auth_uri": ".../accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": ".../oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "etc",
"client_x509_cert_url": "etc"
}

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I've only dabbled with the service account side of it and I've always used impersonate when testing.

What happens if you break it down a bit and start simple and copy a file up and share the ls output of that copy.

So something like:

[felix@gemini ~]$ rclone copy /etc/hosts GD:
[felix@gemini ~]$ rclone lsl GD:hosts
      243 2019-05-16 11:52:08.698000000 hosts

and share that out and lets make sure it's being copied up.

3

Thanks for your reply!

Yes, that works, but that's not the problem:
$ rclone copy 123-RCLONETEST.TXT gdrive:/
$ rclone lsl gdrive:/123-RCLONETEST.TXT
6 2019-08-07 14:47:24.341000000 123-RCLONETEST.TXT

My problem is that if I go to Google Drive in my browser, the file is no where to be found:

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So, I'm connected to Google Drive, but I have no idea where the files are being stored.

4

You won't be able to see files created by service accounts in your normal drive unless you share them to the normal drive account.

5

Thanks for your reply.

OK, so I've been reading about service accounts, and that seems to be the reason.

However, if I share a folder from my Google Drive account to the service account, that folder doesn't appear in the service account using "rclone lsl".

Any ideas?

6

Try with the --shared-with-me flag

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I think the option is "--drive-shared-with-me".

But it makes no difference....

I've created a brand new service account now and it just gets 401 errors.
Response: {
"error": "unauthorized_client",
"error_description": "Client is unauthorized to retrieve access tokens using this method, or client not authorized for any of the scopes requested."
}

I guess this problem is there is no place to set the scope in the confused maze of Google's credentials area.

On this page: https://rclone.org/drive/
you can see " * In the next field, “One or More API Scopes”, enter https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive to grant access to Google Drive specifically."

However, there is no "next field" to enter the scope.

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