Synchronizing with Microsoft Linux OneDrive

A few days ago we told you that Microsoft announced that users of its cloud solution, Microsoft OneDrive, went to have 15 GB of free storage to backup your files.

In the same announcement detailing the Office 365 users will get nothing less than 1TB in which to store your files and collaborate with others.

However, as users of Ubuntu and other Linux distributions will know, OneDrive not have an official client for your favorite platform. Fortunately there is an alternative way to get files integrate Microsoft cloud in this operating system.

As told in OMGubuntu, one drive-d is an Open Source project that allows files to integrate our OneDrive distributions like Ubuntu.

Which sounds great if not for two details that we must take into account: your installation may not be so simple for novice users and its performance is not as good as it can be the Dropbox client parra this platform.

Still, if you urge to try it, here are the steps which you should take:

Installing Ubuntu onedrive-d

First we have to download the zip file containing the program. Once in our possession, keeping them extract the files in a directory, within our Home folder.

Within the newly created directory, find an installation script, which among other things will see that we all needed to work with the program units. To get it started we open our dear terminal and write the following:

onedrive cd-d-master /

sudo. / install inst

If all goes well (we have all the necessary dependencies), we will show a window program preferences. If by chance the window we will not be displayed but the installation was successful, write the following command in our terminal.

onedrive-prefs

From that moment all we have to do is click on the "Connect to OneDrive.com" button and grant permission to the application when we display in the browser.

From there since the preferences panel we can determine what we want to synchronize directories and if we exclude certain files from synchronization.

Each time you want to mount the drive, we write onedrive-d command in the terminal. If we skip this step, we can always add this command within applications that are opened by default when you start your operating system. As mentioned before, it is not a perfect system, but it's better than nothing.