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appindicator for grive (google drive sync tool)
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More instructions for installing #7

Closed raphaelchinchilla closed 5 years ago

raphaelchinchilla commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Can you give more instructions on how to install the indicator? I have installed the dependencies and cloned the repository, but the rest is really not clear from the instructions on the read me on how to install the indicator and make it run

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

Hi. That's right, some instructions are missing... You can either install the snap (it's not in the store atm, so you should build it..) or you can run

cd <source folder>
bin/grive-indicator

To install you can also use the setup.py by running

cd <source folder>
python3 setup.py install --record files.txt

(The record function creates a list of the files it installed in the system, so you can then remove them) I would run it as a snap or with the first method described here, without running the install. I'm thinking of releasing the snap in the store, if you're interested. So if you use the bin/grive-indicator method you can then transition to the snap once it's released

raphaelchinchilla commented 5 years ago

Thanks! Your app is very nice!

I don't plan on installing it, I like to keep my machine as clean as possible. One of those things that linux is much better than windows!

I also have a couple of improvements suggestions:

1) Change the icon when the sync is running 2) grive2 5.0 allows auto sync, you could probably implement it in the grive indicator 3) a GUI to see grive log in order to see if there were any problem in the sync

On the settings:

1) Explain what is the timmer unit 2) What is CSD? 3) Does it run grive with the option --new-rev?

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

suggestions:

  1. an icon would be nice, if someone wants to send me that ;)
  2. I noticed the autosync, would be nice, I have no idea how to add it properly atm
  3. the log can be done...I'll look into that soon

settings:

  1. timer I guess...it's the interval between sync actions.
  2. CSD (client side decorations), to integrate it better with gnome...but it'll be removed soon. it was mostly a test
  3. new-rev? what's that option?
raphaelchinchilla commented 5 years ago

hi =D suggestions: 1) for the icon, I found some online. It is under CC, so you can use it as long as you reference the creator https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/27883/refresh_sync_synchronize_icon 2) Great! Because the one for grive is kind of hermetic 3) Great too!

setting: 1) I meant, what is the time unit? minutes, seconds, hours ... 2) gotcha 3) when syncing with grive, one can run grive --new-rev and if there has been a modification on the files, instead of erasing the old one, grive will run it as a new version. It is weird that this is not the default configuration, but this is what the google drive app on windows/mac does, or even if you simply upload a file on the web...

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

The time unit is in minutes... I'll add it in the UI if it's not there. I'm not sure of the new rev... If I change a file I want to change THAT file, not another one.. But one thing I can do is add a field where you can add custom grive options

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hi =D suggestions: 1) for the icon, I found some online. It is under CC, so you can use it as long as you reference the creator https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/27883/refresh_sync_synchronize_icon 2) Great! Because the one for grive is kind of hermetic 3) Great too!

setting: 1) I meant, what is the time unit? minutes, seconds, hours ... 2) gotcha 3) when syncing with grive, one can run grive --new-rev and if there has been a modification on the files, instead of erasing the old one, grive will run it as a new version. It is weird that this is not the default configuration, but this is what the google drive app on windows/mac does, or even if you simply upload a file on the web...

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raphaelchinchilla commented 5 years ago

It does change the new file, it just keeps the old one for 30 or 100 versions. There is more details about it in https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2409045?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

zjsr commented 5 years ago

Thank you for your work on grive-indicator.

I have 2 computers using grive2 (previously installed) to synchronize with different Google Drive accounts.

On Computer 1, I downloaded grive-indicator-master.zip , extracted the files into a "New" folder in the /home directory and ran the bin/grive-indicator in the "bin" subfolder. Although I have not tried the "ignore" function, all has gone well on Computer 1 over the last few weeks.

On Computer 2. I wanted to install grive-indicator in a more secure fashion. Not knowing how to use SNAP, I elected to install via the terminal "python3 setup.py install --record files.txt" command. While the program files were installed in the /usr/share/applications , /usr/share/icons/~ , /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages directories, and the "files.txt" created, upon execution grive-indicator-0.2 opens. Not good. I have subsequently extracted the grive-indicator-master.zip files and tried to use these in the Computer 2 /home directory (as on Computer 1). However, whenever using, the grive-indicator0.2 still opens.

Can you advise if there is a single file/folder yjat was installed in the Computer 2 /usr directory that I can remove or easily replace which will allow grive-indicator version 19.06 to operate on Computer 2?

Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

@zjsr I can't reproduce, if I install the script in /usr bin is grive-indicator. Could the repo not be up to date in computer 2? My suggestion is to try and remove the install, with every file it left on the system. Then pull the latest version and try again.

zjsr commented 5 years ago

Thank you for your prompt attention. I am sure the error was caused by me. I have removed all the Computer 2 files in files.txt I also removed all files which include "grive-indicator" . While I did this, I noticed I had downloaded "grive-indicator-0.2.zip" as well as "grive-indicator-master.zip ". It appears both version 1.0 and version 19.06 were installed. After the Computer 2 files were removed, I redownloaded "grive-indicator-master.zip", unpacked the zip and tried simply to run" cd bin/grive-indicator in the terminal. This resulted in a shadow icon in the task bar, and a number of error messages in the terminal window. The shadow icon did not permit access to the preferences settings.png and did not sync with Google Drive. FYI, the attached file provides the terminal window output modified to conceal the username.

grive_indicator_Terminal_Errors.txt

It seems to me that there could be at one or more files from prior usage that need to be removed (or that I removed one or more files needed from prior use). Since the "grive" command in grive2 still synchronizes with Google Drive, I continue to use that. Please let me know if you have any further suggestionsto get the 19.06 version of grive-indicator to work on Computer 2.
Thanks again.

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

The first error I see is "ERROR: Missing grive in PATH", which says that grive is not able to be found in PATH. How do you access it? Is it installed in a non standard way? your folder "/home/~/JSRGoogleDrive" does not seem to exist Is there a file in /home/$USER/.confg/grive_indicator.conf? And what are its contents?

They should be something like this: [DEFAULT] dark = true time = 30 revisions = true folder = /home/your username/JSRGoogleDrive upload_speed = 0 download_speed = 0 show_notifications = false

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

@zjsr Just out of curiosity, and if I were to build non snap packages... what distros are you running?

zjsr commented 5 years ago

  1. I think grive is installed in normal fashion I have a folder "/usr/lib/grive" containing file "grive-sync.sh" and a folder "/usr/share/doc/grive" containing a file "changelog.debian.gz" and a file "copyright" . Grive is activated in Terminal via: UserName@ATR-Dell755SFF:-$ "cd /home/UserName/JSRGoogleDrive" UserName@ATR-Dell755SFF:~/JSRGoogleDrive $ "grive"

  2. Folder "/home/"username"/JSRGoogleDrive" is present.

  3. Folder "/home/$USER/.confg/grive_indicator.conf" not found. The folder or file "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/grive_indicator-19.6-py3.6.egg/grive_indicator/data/grive_indicator.conf" deleted when removing files in files.txt"

Regarding your Snap query, Computer 2 is using Linux Mint 19.1, Cinnamon version, based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Thanks again for your assistance.

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

What happens if you run with --debug?

zjsr commented 5 years ago

Not sure what you wanted, bur in Terminal, I ran "cd /home/UserName/JSRGoogleDrive" $ grive --debug

Output " config file name "./.grive" HTTP POST "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token" HTTP response 200 Reading local directories file .trash is ignored by grive file .grive is ignored by grive file .grive_state is ignored by grive Reading remote server file list HTTP GET "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files?maxResults=999999999&q=trashed%3dfalse" " then information on lots of individual files

Hope that helps.

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

Actually I need the log for grive-indicator ;) so bin/grive-indicator --debug

zjsr commented 5 years ago

On Computer 2 ~/grive-indicator-master$ bin/grive-indicator --debug (grive-indicator:1171): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:47:01.087: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent

(grive-indicator:1171): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:47:01.087: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent DEBUG: Running in debug mode DEBUG: Emulate sync, then update label DEBUG: Running: ['grive', '--upload-speed ', '--download-speed '] DEBUG: Grive log: Options are incorrect. Use -h for help DEBUG: Finished sync

(grive-indicator:1171): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 14:47:01.505: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates: assertion 'window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

On Computer 1 ~/grive-indicator-master$ bin/grive-indicator --debug

(grive-indicator:21088): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:16:57.973: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent

(grive-indicator:21088): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:16:57.973: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent INFO: Revisions active DEBUG: Running in debug mode DEBUG: Emulate sync, then update label DEBUG: Running: ['grive', '--new-rev'] DEBUG: Grive log: Reading local directories DEBUG: Grive log: Reading remote server file list DEBUG: Grive log: Synchronizing files many files

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

Computer 2 should have created the config file... It can't seem to get the right settings without it. I'm not sure what the issue is. Try (but I'm guessing here..) copying the config file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LyzardKing/grive-indicator/master/grive_indicator/data/grive_indicator.conf to /home/$USER/.config/grive_indicator.conf Remember to set the folder (the gui should ask you to set it) Hopefully it'll read those settings

zjsr commented 5 years ago

Thanks for all the advice. In the end, I deleted the user account on Computer 2. When I recreated the user account on Computer 2, using grive-indicator-master as source and bin/grive-indicator worked fine.

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

Ok. Glad it worked in the end. Closing for now