KIO Gdrive not working

[burak]

I signed in with Google, it IS in the online accounts section; but it says access denied. Can someone help? (Also, weirdly, it isn’t asking for access to google drive when signing in if that helps)

[Krovikan]

Maybe this helps:

Kio-gdrive: using custom google.provider works, but access tokens expire or go missing after a few days

I’m using a custom ~/.local/share/accounts/providers/google.provider that enables access to Google Drive. It’s tied to an OAuth client that I set up on my Google account. Against all odds, this works, which is nice. Here's the config At first, I can log in as myself, access files, etc. However, after a week or two of not using it, I get this error in Dolphin when I try to open the drive: Expired or missing access tokens for account REDACTED I seem to remember seeing a notification the firs…

Regards

[burak]

Well, that problem isn’t really solved either. It did not help.

[Krovikan]

No other solutions in fact. Google denied access:

GDrive connection issue on the Dolphin network

Google has removed the access permissions for KDE’s GDrive client. So even if you have provided the client with the necessary login credentials, the GDrive server will still deny access to your files. Unfortunately Google has so far not been able to release a GDrive client for Linux of their own. It might be possible to convince Google to reinstate access permissions for KDE’s client, however there is currently no timeline for that.

Regards

[burak]

Then how are other people using KIO GDrive without any issues? And other integrations (?) the KDE accounts menu promises?

(Or maybe, i need to reinstall/fix KDE.)

[claydoh]

@burak

Then how are other people using KIO GDrive without any issues?

Either they had access previously, before Google revoked things, or they have used other methods to either create their own personal keys or (potentially bad) spoofing Gnome’s access..

I had one such pre-existing setup that worked, but lost it when I did a clean install. Luckily, I had previously set up a personal key in the past for Rclone to access my gdrive, so I used that.

It has nothing to do with your system, but Google’s decision, and no one doing the work of satisfying their requirements, jumping through their hoops, and invoking the proper incantations.

[burak]

So…use rclone instead if KIO GDrive?

[claydoh]

That’s an option but not really for Dolphin use.

My point was that I’d already set up access for Google Drive for rclone for my NAS so I’d already done the steps to set up personal keys as previously mentioned.