I have all my projects stored in google drive. On windows this wasn’t an issue using “drive for desktop”.
On ubuntu (22.04) I have my gdrive mounted and can access all content through nautilus. When I open KiCAD (7.0.8) though, which I just installed, and attempt to open a project on the mounted gdrive, I am unable to navigate to it. It seems that kicad cannot see the mounted drive at all. Anyone know where I’m going wrong?
I’m using ppa kicad
What happens when you cd to that location and open the project with kicad ./myProject.kicad_pro?
Where did you mount it? (Under which folder)? What are the permissions on that the files and folders in the drive? What mount command or /etc/fstab line did you use to mount it?
I’m guessing you are using the Gnome Google Drive integration?
If so, this is unfortunately a known problem with how Gnome is actually mounting the files. In the last year or two, Gnome switched to using a virtual file system for these cloud shares and when you mount flash drives (it is called GVFS - the Gnome Virtual File System, really clever naming on their part). The problem is, this file system can’t be accessed through normal IO routines, and doesn’t appear in the open/save dialogs without some tweaks. I looked into it a bit before when we first got reports (feel free to upvote this issue if you are on GitLab, File browsers ignores some directories and mountable file systems (#14372) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab), and I need to sit down and work on an implementation that actually will work for KiCad still.
I did indeed set it up through Gnome. Sounds like Ian’s hit the nail on the head. Thanks guys. I’ll wait patiently and use a different file management workflow in the meantime. Cheers.
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