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Cannot add or create a vault using Google's "Computers" location

Open SailReal opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

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Summary

Cannot add or create a vault using Google's "Computers" location

System Setup

- Android: x
- Cryptomator: x

Cloud Type

Google Drive

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install Google drive client on the PC
  2. Create a vault inside the Computers location using the PC
  3. Try to add this vault using the Android app

Expected Behavior

Vault can be added

Actual Behavior

Folder of the vault isn't found

Reproducibility

Always

Relevant Log Output

No response

Anything else?

It is interesting that when I don't specify any query parameters while executing the list method against the Google cloud, I get the results from the "Computers" locations too but the problem is, that there isn't a method to know if this is a folder you named "Computers" or it is this Google drive location. There are a lot of requests in this direction in Googles bug tracker like e.g. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/172775993 or https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/67360473 but I don't think that there is a possibility to implement this without the help of Google...they need to provide an interface to query this folder like they do with Shared drives :confused:. We need the ID of this folder to implement something similar to the Shared drives workaround, see https://github.com/cryptomator/android/issues/354

Workaround

You can add a shortcut to "My Drive", then the "Computers" location can be accessed. See How to access shared vaults in Google Drive for further information.

SailReal avatar Oct 07 '21 19:10 SailReal

And as far as I know, it's also not possible to access a vault stored in a Google Drive Shared Drive.

m-p-3 avatar Dec 21 '21 19:12 m-p-3

@m-p-3 access to Google Shared Drive is tracked in https://github.com/cryptomator/android/issues/354

SailReal avatar Dec 23 '21 07:12 SailReal