GNOME 50 dropped support for accessing Google Drive files
If you’re used to accessing your Google Drive in the Nautilus file manager, a heads-up that the feature is no longer available in GNOME 50, which is the desktop version the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS uses. While GNOME Online Accounts (GOA) integration continues to allow you to sign in to your Google account to enable supported apps to access your contacts, mail and calendar data securely, the toggle to give access to files is now gone. It’s that toggle that allows you to remotely mount your Google Drive in Nautilus’ sidebar. If you installed the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS beta you […]
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