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I followed this Tutorial, so that i can use Google Drive directly from my File Manager (Nautilus) But As per the tutorial Step 3

Step 3: Mount Google Drive in Ubuntu File Manager
Open your Ubuntu File Manager and you will be able to see your Google account listed in the left panel as follows:

I can't see my Email/Gmail ID in my File Manager

It Looks Like This:

I tried look in + Other Locations Tab But I can't see my Email/Gmail There Too!, it looks like this:

My System Details:

Edit:

After Following sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio's Answer

I got this error gio: google-drive://<your gmail user>@gmail.com/: Location is not mountable when i executed this command:

gio mount google-drive://<your gmail user>@gmail.com/

Where <your gmail user> was my gmail username

And output of the command gio mount -l is

Drive(0): TOSHIBA DT01ACA100
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
  Volume(0): Windows
    Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
Drive(1): hp PLDS DVDRW  DU8AESH
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
Drive(2): Generic- SD/MMC/MS PRO
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)

Output of command dpkg -l | grep gvfs

ii  gvfs:amd64                                    1.44.1-1ubuntu1                                  amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - GIO module
ii  gvfs-bin                                      1.44.1-1ubuntu1                                  amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - deprecated command-line tools
ii  gvfs-common                                   1.44.1-1ubuntu1                                  all          userspace virtual filesystem - common data files
ii  gvfs-daemons                                  1.44.1-1ubuntu1                                  amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - servers
ii  gvfs-fuse                                     1.44.1-1ubuntu1                                  amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - fuse server
ii  gvfs-libs:amd64                               1.44.1-1ubuntu1                                  amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - private libraries
Aditya
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  • You may have missed something in Steps 1 and steps 2. No way for us to know. – vanadium Sep 16 '21 at 07:23
  • no I followed everything same as the tutorial – Aditya Sep 16 '21 at 15:45
  • If you are interested, I am pretty sure that goofle drive Has linux versions of the desktop drive app. Never used the Linuxx version, but I would imagine it is the same as the windows version, which adds your drive folders to the file explorer. That is the windows version of what you're trying to do here. Ill grab a link. – Nate T Sep 21 '21 at 23:30
  • thanks, it worked – Aditya Sep 27 '21 at 14:39

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You could mount the remote location with gio

$ gio mount google-drive://<your gmail user>@gmail.com/

Please report what you get, both when mounting and then in Nautilus (make sure the file manager you are using is Nautilus!).

Also post the output of

$ gio mount -l

As of now, I wouldn't know the reason why it does not show.
EDIT: You might be missing package gvfs-backends.

sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio
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Open your settings and go into "Online Accounts" and check if you can see your google account there. If not then probably you have to sign in again. Make sure Files option is on.

Probably, you will be able to see your account in File Explorer.

Gourav Bansal
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