Hi all,
I know Plex Drive is gone, but is there any way to stream directly from Google Drive? I signed up for a Plexpass specifically so I wouldn’t have to use my computer as the server. I’ve seen a couple of posts but I’m not a developer/coder, so it’s all a foreign language to me. I’m running Mojave 10.14.4 on a Macbook Air.
Also, I know several people have probably asked this question, so if it’s already covered, I’d love directs to the post. Thank you!
Depending on the sort of google drive account you have and the size of your media library you could possibly use Google’s Drive File Stream.
You would still need the server running on the Macbook, but the media would come from your google drive
How can you get your content from the Google Drive using a server on a mac?
thanks in advance
When you say get…
Do you mean stream?
Yes! That’s what i meant
You could mount your Gdrive in the OS with rclone.
It works amazingly well on Windows and I believe is achievable on mac.
There should be some help here
rclone is probably a better solution, but if you want a simpler option, you could just use Google File Stream, see this thread:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/local-plex-cloud-with-google-drive/335018
It’s definitely simpler but all those provisos.
I know 
I guess it really depends on scale/size of your media library and how often you add new content…
I would always choose rclone, but less tech savvy users do sometimes struggle with setting it up.
Although the biggest hurdle when setting it up is getting users to set up their own google api key, and that’s not an rclone issue, just google’s somewhat complicated interface
Yeah to be fair I know may around rclone and the Google API credentials from my secondary remote system. So that definitely helped.
I only recently looked at rclone on Windows seriously. I just found it a little dauting despite it being the only OS I really know.
But there is always someone, somewhere with a guide. 
So not withstanding my familiarity with rclone already, it took me about 15 minutes.
Right now I’m using it simply to trim down my server at home. I’m OCD and a hoarder and can never bring myself to delete media. So I can simply delete selected Shows from my local system and mount them from Gdrive (just in case.)
rclone really doesn’t care if you analyse your files, scan your libraries hourly or even generate VP thumbnails. (though the latter is pointless for anything mid to high bitrate.
This way I also get a single Tautulli instance rather than one for my local and one for my remote system.
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