Cant setup Google Drive storage

[jtcook63]

I am trying to add my Google Drive storage and keep getting the same error. Please see the error below:

Failed to list the shared drives: googleapi: Error 403: Request had insufficient authentication scopes. Details: [ { "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo", "domain": "googleapis.com", "metadata": { "method": "google.apps.drive.v3.DriveDrives.List", "service": "drive.googleapis.com" }, "reason": "ACCESS_TOKEN_SCOPE_INSUFFICIENT" } ] More details: Reason: insufficientPermissions, Message: Insufficient Permission

I’ve tried recreating the token twice but I keep getting the same error. I am not sure what the problem is.

I used the following link to generate the token file: Google Drive for Duplicacy

Any advice is appreciated.

[saspus]

See this:

Reinstall - New gdrive - gcd token just won't work

Right. It looks like Google Drive just revoked all tokens previously issued with the full access scope. You can work around the issue with the following steps: Obtain a new, app-scoped token from Google Drive for Duplicacy. This new token can only be used to access files created by Duplicacy Create a new temporary Google Drive storage in Duplicacy. When selecting the storage directory, don’t click the directory browsing button. Instead, just enter the old storage directory name in the inp…

Tangential — it’s not advisable to backup to Google shared drive. It’s very easy to blow through the limit on the number of objects.

[jtcook63]

I just want to backup to my google drive, the only reason I am trying to set a Shared Drive location is out of ignorance. I didn’t find anything in the documentation about what to fill out and not fill out.

That said, when I click the directory button instead of the shared drive button I get a different error. Please see below:

Failed to retrieve the id of the root: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 0AEblxUxPy1U_Uk9PVA., notFound

Any advice on how to deal with this? Is there documentation somewhere on how to setup Google Drive in Duplicacy? Maybe I am just an idiot, I don’t know.

[saspus]

Did you visit the link I posted above? Quote from the message above the one linked (highlight mine):

@gchen

It appears that Google Drive stopped giving out the full access scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive. I modified Google Drive for Duplicacy to use the more restricted https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file scope instead, which means Duplicacy can only access files and directories that it creates.

As a result, you can no longer click the browse button to list directories in your Google Drive account. You’ll have to manually enter the directory name.

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If any entity is an idiot here — it’s Google. Banning existing applications and then forcing developers to go through expensive and prolonged “review” process just so their customers can continue using the retched service is an obnoxious bullshit in my opinion, excuse my French. To their defense they did drop the “don’t be evil” motto long time ago. Perhaps time for customers to start dropping Google? You know, be the change you want to see in the world. I’ve stopped using all Google services altogether years ago myself, can’t be happier, seeing how they drop/cancel/sell out services I used to use (such as gooogle domains). Google is so pervasive I’m still using its services indirectly, so this is not strictly true.

Here is an example of one of my favorite apps dropping Google Drive support: Panic Blog » End of the Road for Google Drive in Transmit. Example of my other favorite apps affected by this who persevered and had their access restored: ForkLift’s Google Drive Integration Restored: Direct Connection Approved

Moving your backup to an actual cloud storage — like Amazon or storj — will not only work better but also be cheaper. If you account amount of time (and time is money) you have already spent troubleshooting this nonsense — vastly cheaper.

[jtcook63]

I use google drive for my company email so I am already paying for it and have lots of space included so I might as well use it.

I was able to get it work by manually typing in a location instead of using the button. Seems to be there is a bug with the button.

What I did:

1. Get my drive credentials from https://duplicacy.com/gcd_start
2. Leave the Shared Drive field blank
3. In the directory input field I put “backup/server_name” and this places a folder named backup at the root of My Drive.

[saspus]

@jtcook63

Seems to be there is a bug with the button.

Technically you are right - the button is now broken following the change to workaround Google’s change.

@gchen, please consider removing the button from Google drive configuration page since aside from submitting to annual reviews to maintian full access scope there is no way to make enumeration work.