andresoviedo / google-drive-ftp-adapter

Google Drive FTP Adapter to connect to google drive through the FTP protocol
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Files with zero size are not downloaded by ftp (filezilla, windows cmd prompt ftp} #49

Open coho-salmon opened 4 years ago

coho-salmon commented 4 years ago

Apparently Google Drive handles some files differently. They appear to be created by google apps such as docs, slides, etc. If you download them via drive.google.com, google seems to decide on the fly to give them a format. Otherwise they appear in a ftp listing as having zero size. I know it is possible to deal with this. For example, multcloud.com file explorer can deal with them by asking at the time, what format do you want. But not sure how they deal with downloading a directory with several of these files.

andresoviedo commented 4 years ago

Hello @coho-salmon google-drive-ftp-adapter downloads the Google Doc files using Google Drive export link. It means gogle-drive-ftp-adapter will download your Google Doc files to your local PC as Microsoft or Libre Office compatible formats. Regards