I tried Gnome 3.18 Google Drive integration feature to access my Google Drive USE GNOME 3.18 GOOGLE DRIVE INTEGRATION FEATURE IN UNITY, XFCE AND OTHER DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS [UBUNTU 16.04]
which works fine but I didn't like it as sometimes it hangs my system when I try to open some folders.
Can anyone tell me how to remove this drive ?
4 Answers
Just like you, I tried this feature in Ubuntu 16.04. I thought it was nice but didn't want to use google-drive that way... then I was mildly annoyed by the fact that not even removing my google account and changing the settings on Online Accounts worked. I couldn't find the Files switch.
So I found this workaround, I hope this helps somebody. Locate the file:
~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.confand edit it. You'll see some blocks of text representing the same settings you could find on the Online Accounts menu shown by @nvelosa.
Find the flag Files enabled=true under the desired google account and change it to false.
In my case I immediately saw nautilus file explorer hiding the shortcut and finding myself annoyed no more.
4what @ubashu means is the following, Open Settings -> Online Accounts -> Google and disable Files.
I tried this feature in Ubuntu 17.04 too but it was not so fair to use. I was annoyed by the fact that in Nautilus was constantly the icon to mount the google remote drive altough I had removed it. The solution reported worked:
rm ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf
In Ubuntu 17.04 there is not the option: Settings -> Online Accounts -> Google -> Files. From there this cannot be disabled.
If you are looking for a better free solution to mount google drive then I advice you google-drive-ocamlfuse since there is no official linux plugin.
Go to settings and search for online accounts. Remove google account from there and restart the system. That's it.
