[Jprogramming] Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: bit by bit.

[Ian Clark]

Thanks, emacstheviking.

> Working with Google drive seems deliberately difficult.

That's certainly the impression I've formed. But what can one say about a
data-gorging monster? Isn't it pre-disposed to seeing that data moves
mainly in one direction?

Maybe some would say iCloud would be out of the frying pan into the fire.
(But I've worked with iCloud Drive at the API level and have a little more
respect for it.)

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 22:56, emacstheviking <objitsu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian,
> Working with Google drive seems deliberately difficult.
> There used to be a linux file system widget that let you copy files from
> the command line but I am not sure if that exists any more.
>
> https://itsfoss.com/use-google-drive-linux/
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 22:52, Ian Clark <earthspotty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My son has 70 GB of misc data on Google Drive, which he needs to move
> > across onto iCloud Drive as a once-off job. With the equipment he's
> having
> > to use, just clicking Download in the Google Drive website takes too long
> > and doesn't complete. I had to admit this problem was outside my
> > experience, but faced with the task myself I'd set about doing it the
> dumb
> > way: a subfolder at a time.
> >
> > I know there are folk on this forum who routinely work with large amounts
> > of data. Can someone suggest a utility (maybe written in J, bypassing
> > commercial browsers) which would do the job a teeny bit smarter than
> that?
> >
> > Ian Clark
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