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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
