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I've been using ubuntu 18.04 since it's release and I've always had problems using the integrated Google Drive feature.

It takes a LONG time to load the files from my Google account, exactly like the problem reported in this question: Google Drive takes a very long time to open with GNOME Online Accounts

Recently, I downloaded the 20.04 daily build image to test, and voilà! It works like a charm!

What happened? It's a fix in nautilus itself, or a gnome fix? Is there any way to reproduce the same behaviour on 18.04?

Edit: The same thing is observed on 19.04. Loading times are reasonable.

Diego C. P. Blanco
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Well, looking a bit further I found the answer, not in an ubuntu forum per say, but in a Linux Mint one. Mint uses Nero as a file manager which is a fork of Nautilus. The issue is discussed here: Mint 19 Cinnamon (Nemo): Google drive loading takes a huge amount of time.

In short, there was a huge re-work done to the gvfs library between 18.10 and 19.04 that fixed the issue. The fix was merged in version 1.39, but the 18.04.3 LTS incorporates version 1.36. There is currently no backport for a newer version, and probably no easy fix for the moment...

Diego C. P. Blanco
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