Grive2, which presents as grive version 0.4.0-1 seems to be working using the ppa from webupd8. Supposedly it can now do partial/selective sync. (see Is there a Google Drive client available?)
But something that is not revealed in the manpage is how to do this, other than using the -s switch and manually syncing individual folders. I remember reading about a .exclude file where supposedly you list the files you want ignored in a sync, but this is cumbersome to maintain, especially if you have a Google Drive as big as mine.
Does anyone know how to format .exclude, and if it can use wildcards, e.g. something like this:
\# Exclude the following:
/My Drive/Photos/big/*
./Google Photos/*.jpg
Edit: Just got a reply from the developer on GitHub, who says there is no .exclude file, but he is working on something like this. Now I am doubly confused because I don't know where I read about it, but I know I'm not dreaming!
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Also interested & accidentally found a workaround, steps:
- install grive2
- authenticate and start full sync by
grive -ain the~/grivefolder - wait till files in Google Drive root folder will be downloaded and break it when syncing first subfolder
- create new subfolder such as
~/grive/myfilesand put some files here - start single folder sync by
grive -s ~/grive/myfiles - repeat step 5 when you want to sync changes in
myfilesfolder
HTH
I don't believe that starting a full sync is required as mentioned by @mschanya. It appears that since Grive2 v0.4.0 partial sync is supported at the folder level with the command grive -s subdir
It also seems that since Grive2 v0.4.2 there is an option to exclude files by perl regexp with the switch --ignore arg {Perl RegExp to ignore files (matched against relative paths, remembered for next runs)}.
Github address is here
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