<p>You could mount your google drive using gdrivefs on your pi following this tutorial: <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=109587" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=109587</a>
However, I have to ask: why send the file to the internet? Is your printer/pi on a separate network than your desktop where you are slicing?</p>

<p>If they're on the same network, you'd be better off setting up a samba share on your raspberry pi (<a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/samba-file-server/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/samba-file-server/</a>) and then mounting that directory from your desktop (<a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-connect-to-linux-samba-shares-from-windows-10/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-connect-to-linux-samba-shares-from-windows-10/</a>).</p>

<p>In either case, you could set the directory (the gdrive directory or the samba share) as the watched folder in octoprint's config.yaml (<a href="http://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/configuration/config_yaml.html#folder" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/configuration/config_yaml.html#folder</a>).</p>

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<p>Is there a way where my upload folder on my OctoPrint server would be a folder on my Google drive so that I could save my G-code that was generated using Simplify3d to an existing folder on my desktop at which it would then automatically be uploaded into my RPi via the internet.</p>

<p>Or maybe a watched folder that can be accessed via internet?</p>

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Connecting my OctoPrint to a Google drive folder
Majid Alashari
# Connecting my OctoPrint to a Google drive folder

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-08)

Is there a way where my upload folder on my OctoPrint server would be a folder on my Google drive so that I could save my G-code that was generated using Simplify3d to an existing folder on my desktop at which it would then automatically be uploaded into my RPi via the internet.

Or maybe a watched folder that can be accessed via internet?

**Tags:** octoprint, simplify3d, raspberry-pi

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-11-18. Score: 3

You could mount your google drive using gdrivefs on your pi following this tutorial: <https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=109587>
However, I have to ask: why send the file to the internet? Is your printer/pi on a separate network than your desktop where you are slicing?

If they're on the same network, you'd be better off setting up a samba share on your raspberry pi (<https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/samba-file-server/>) and then mounting that directory from your desktop (<https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-connect-to-linux-samba-shares-from-windows-10/>).

In either case, you could set the directory (the gdrive directory or the samba share) as the watched folder in octoprint's config.yaml (<http://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/configuration/config_yaml.html#folder>).


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