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nurph

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Registered: 2025-03-20

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[SOLVED] Can't access Google Drive folder with Gnome Online Account

I'm using GNOME 47 and have signed into my Google account through GNOME Online Accounts. Other features, like task syncing in the calendar, work fine. Nautilus recognizes my account and successfully mounts Google Drive. However, I can’t access the "My Drive" folder.

In Nautilus, when I click on my email address, I see two folders:
1. "Shared with Me" – I can access this folder without any issues.

2. "My Drive" – When I try to open it, a pop-up error appears:

This location could not be displayed. The content of a 'modifiedDate' element ('1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z') was not in ISO 8601 format.

I also tried accessing it via the terminal at:

ls /run/user/1000/gvfs/google-drive:host=gmail.com,user=(username)/(My Drive folder, substituted by random string)

but it returned:

ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error

Running Nautilus with:

nautilus --no-desktop

didn’t provide any useful debug information (I don't know how to make it verbose).

Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance, and sorry if my explanation was unclear.

Last edited by nurph (2025-03-22 15:14:31)

nurph

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Registered: 2025-03-20

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Can't access Google Drive folder with Gnome Online Account

Check for files that have a modified date older than 1970, the UNIX epoch. In my case, there are a couple of files with a modified date of 1 January 1601. Modifying (e.g., renaming) or removing the files solved the problem. Considering the pop-up window mentioned 'modifiedDate,' it was dumb of me not to immediately check the modified time of my files. But I hope this post helps someone in the future!