Beginner question: Sync to personal Google drive

[lxs602]

Hi,

This may be a beginner "I can not figure out how to use this" type question.

What steps am I missing?

Your documentation is comprehensive, but a walkthrough guide and signposts would be welcome for less able users.

Would you be interested if I wrote one / otherwise made a contribution to the README? (once I get this working)

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Pre-existing:

• A personal google drive account

Steps followed:

1. Created a new service-account on Google cloud console ("serviceaccount1")
2. Created personal key for the service account, and downloaded the json (code-obfuscated-XXXXXX-XX-XXXXXXXXXXXX.json)
3. Enabled Google Drive API for the service account
4. At the web page interface, shared a folder with the service account, and gave it editor access
5. Created new folder in local home directory ("~/google-drive-shared")
6. Initialized the folder:
   ~/go/bin/drive init --service-account-file ~/code-obfuscated-XXXXXX-XX-XXXXXXXXXXXX.json -id YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ~/google-drive-shared
7. Relocated to the new folder, and pulled from Google drive:
   $ ~/go/bin/drive pull -id 1t8hARpY7gLPVmHQFxMnG-mmkb7vVxkvu
8. Made a new file, and tried resyncing to Google Drive:
   ~/go/bin/drive push --no-clobber

Expected behaviour:

• Only the new file would be uploaded

Actual behaviour:

• Drive uploads everything to the root folder of the service account. The shared folder on Google Drive is not re-uploaded to.

Resolving...

• /Documents
• /Documents/file.png
  ...
• /Data-documents/FILE.md
• /Data-documents/README.md
  Addition count 1816 src: 1.49GB
  Proceed with the changes? [Y/n]:

~/google-drive-shared$~/go/bin/drive stat -id YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Filename Documents
FileId YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Bytes 0
Size 0.00B
QuotaBytesUsed 0
DirType folder
VersionNumber 16
MimeType application/vnd.google-apps.folder
Etag "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
ModTime 2025-06-07 15:19:41 +0000 UTC
LastViewedByMe 0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Shared true
Owners username
LastModifyingUsername username
OriginalFilename
Starred false
Viewed false
Trashed false
ViewersCanDownload false

Name: username username@gmail.com
Role owner
AccountType user
*

Name: serviceaccount1@code-obfuscated-XXXXXX-XX-XXXXXXXXXXXX serviceaccount1@code-obfuscated-XXXXXX-XX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
Role writer
AccountType user
*

~/google-drive-shared$ ~/go/bin/drive list -id YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY/Documents/FILE.md
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY/Documents/file1.png
...

~/google-drive-shared$ ~/go/bin/drive list -depth 1
... No output ...

The wiki page here (https://github.com/odeke-em/drive/wiki/FAQ) suggests:

~/go/bin/drive drive init ~/google-drive
but this only returns the help menu:
Usage: /home/luke/go/bin/drive

where is one of:
about print out information about your Google drive
clashes fix clashes by renaming or trashing all files
...etc.