<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">WHOI now offers infinite storage on Google Drive with your @whoi account (<a href="http://whoi-it.whoi.edu/google-drive/" class="">basics here</a>). Transfer speed is slow, and using the web interface leads to some issues in transferring subfolders. But - here’s a command line workaround from the Helpdesk to automate the process (they’ll be posting these online eventually but wanted to forward once I’d tested them out).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Using RCLONE to upload Files<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">First Download Rclone: <a href="http://rclone.org/downloads/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">http://rclone.org/downloads/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then Extract it to a folder you can easily reach with Command Prompt<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Configuration:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You must setup a “remote” before you can upload files. A “remote” is what rclone refers to your google drive account as.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a Command Prompt Navigate to the folder where you extracted rclone.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Run the command “rclone.exe config”<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You will receive a series of prompts to setup the remote. Prompts and answers(In Red) are found below<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">n/s/q> <span style="color: red;" class="">n</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">name> <span style="color: red;" class="">username</span>(Make this whatever you want as long as you can recognize it as your Google account)<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Storage> <span style="color: red;" class="">7</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">client_id> <span style="color: red;" class="">Leave Blank</span>(Just Press Return)<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">client_secret> <span style="color: red;" class="">Leave Blank</span>(Just Press Return)<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Remote Config y/n> <span style="color: red;" class="">y</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Your computer will then open your default browser and ask you to sign into your Google Account. Sign in and wait for the “Allow” button to turn blue, then press it. You can then close the web browser. Then go back to the command prompt.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">y/e/d> <span style="color: red;" class="">y</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">e/n/d/s/q> <span style="color: red;" class="">q</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Uploading Files<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now that rclone has been configured you can start uploading files. <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">First Create a folder on Google Drive to upload your files to. When pushing a directory up to Google rclone will not create the folder you are copying it will just move all its contents up so you need to create the folder up there first.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then run the rclone copy command from a Command prompt that is in the rclone directory.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Syntax: “rclone.exe copy c:\folder <i class="">RemoteName</i>:\Folder_on_Google” -v</p></div></body></html>