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Or how 'bout this: you click "also sync my photos with drive" and then you enable the same option in Flickr and iCloud, and now you can use any of the three photo services to organize your albums, and people can use any of the three services to view them, and it's always the same fully-synchronized data for everyone.

I also want to be able to drag my iPhoto Library folder into Google Drive and have it get magically parsed and turned into G+ photo albums -- even if this is just a one-way process.

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Yeah, exactly, I don't understand why they don't make "Photos" a folder in Google Drive and vice-versa. Subfolders can be albums, so when you upload something from your phone to G+ it also shows up on Google Drive, and when you drag a photo in your Photos folder it gets uploaded to your G+ account.

I don't really care that much, though, since there's no Drive client for linux (how hard can it be to port the thing?).

There is a Drive client for linux: insync. I use it since more than a year and it works perfectly.

Oh hum, thanks for that. Does it use inotify/is light on resources?

It's actually pretty well done, I used to use it til I moved to ownCloud. Interestingly it's more stable than the official client on my Mac, on Ubuntu 12.04

It's nice that there's a third party option (yay for open APIs) but it's pretty weird that Google still hasn't bothered to make a Linux Drive client themselves. This is basically the only reason I'm still using Dropbox primarily, though I'll probably start moving some files to Drive when the bonus space I got from their college competition thing expires.

Do you know how it compares with fuse-google-drive?

>I care that much, though, since there's no Drive client for linux (how hard can it be to port the thing?).

Not hard, it has been available forever internally in Google. I guess the hard part is supporting it externally.

Can't you do the one-way import with Picasa?

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