Google Drive as FTP Server

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Is there a way to use Google Drive as an FTP Server   I mean I have host  username and password and using Filezilla I can access GDrive folders  upload and download data and automate backups with many softwares  It isn t important if the protocol is FTP or SFTP   Does GDrive allow this feature  In positive answer  how can I obtain my credentials   Does also DropBox allow this features

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I couldn t find a direct GDrive DropBox solution   I m also surprised there s no lazy solution for a free ftp host   Windows azure offers a ftp server  FTP connector  that s fairly easy to turn on at  https   portal azure com  You can get a free 1 GB account by selecting  View All  machine types during your deployment

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What about running the google-drive-ftp-adapter application in your local pc and then connect your filezilla client to that application  The google-drive-ftp-adapter application is not an online service  but its an alternative solution to connect to google drive through ftp   The google-drive-ftp-adapter is an open source application hosted in github and it is a kind of standalone ftp-server java application that connects to your google drive in behalf of you  acting as a bridge  or adapter  between your ftp client and the google drive service  Once you have running the google-drive-ftp adapter  you can connect your preferred FTP client to the google-drive-ftp-adapter ftp server in your localhost  or wherever the app is running  like in a remote machine  to manage your files   I use it in conjunction with beyond compare to synchronize my local files against the ones I have in the google drive and it serves well for the purpose   This is the current github link hosting the google-drive-ftp-adapter repository  https   github com andresoviedo google-drive-ftp-adapter

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With google-drive-ftp-adapter I have been able to access the My Drive area of Google Drive with the FileZilla FTP client   However  I have not been able to access the Shared with me area   You can configure which Google account credentials it uses by changing the account property in the configuration properties file from default to the desired Google account name   See the instructions at http   www andresoviedo org google-drive-ftp-adapter

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