Just glanced at it but does the "Backup and Synch" option help you:
https://www.google.com/drive/download/ ?

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 6:36 PM Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, emacstheviking.
>
> > Working with Google drive seems deliberately difficult.
>
> That's certainly the impression I've formed. But what can one say about a
> data-gorging monster? Isn't it pre-disposed to seeing that data moves
> mainly in one direction?
>
> Maybe some would say iCloud would be out of the frying pan into the fire.
> (But I've worked with iCloud Drive at the API level and have a little more
> respect for it.)
>
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 22:56, emacstheviking <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ian,
> > Working with Google drive seems deliberately difficult.
> > There used to be a linux file system widget that let you copy files from
> > the command line but I am not sure if that exists any more.
> >
> > https://itsfoss.com/use-google-drive-linux/
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 22:52, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > My son has 70 GB of misc data on Google Drive, which he needs to move
> > > across onto iCloud Drive as a once-off job. With the equipment he's
> > having
> > > to use, just clicking Download in the Google Drive website takes too
> long
> > > and doesn't complete. I had to admit this problem was outside my
> > > experience, but faced with the task myself I'd set about doing it the
> > dumb
> > > way: a subfolder at a time.
> > >
> > > I know there are folk on this forum who routinely work with large
> amounts
> > > of data. Can someone suggest a utility (maybe written in J, bypassing
> > > commercial browsers) which would do the job a teeny bit smarter than
> > that?
> > >
> > > Ian Clark
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