Onedrive

We need to start saving data on Onedrive (or at least use as a backup) as the university moves towards cloud saving. I've tried a few Linux solutions, the best I found is a fork of Onedrive Free Client (original - https://github.com/skilion/onedrive/, working fork - https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive). The software crashes every now and then, so you'll need to keep an eye on it. I use OneDrive strictly for archiving, and Dropbox for day-to-day. Be careful of Windows naming conventions! - I've had the program crash numerous times due to this, particularly with capitals (Windows/Linux is case insensitive/sensitive respectively).

Here are a set of instructions I used to get it working;

• sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
• sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
• sudo apt-get install curl
• curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
• ~/dlang/install.sh
• source ~/dlang/dmd-[version]/activate look for the version in the terminal (2.083.0 on Dec 2018)
• mkdir ~/tmp (if a tmp folder doesn't exist)
• cd ~/tmp
• git clone https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive.git
• cd onedrive
• ./configure
• make
• sudo make install (you can remove dlang at this point if you want)
• onedrive --synchronize
• Copy the web address it gives you to a web browser, login to your account and copy the web link when a blank page pops up.
• Enter the copied url into the terminal - it will start syncing your files into ~/Onedrive
• Once that's done, run onedrive -m and leave it running

There is a way of running a onedrive service using systemctl, but I haven't been able to get that working (see forked github). I prefer having it open in a terminal though, you can keep an eye on what's being transferred.

• I've found the program detox valuable here (sudo apt-get install detox). It changes 'non-standard' lettering to underscores (detox -r -v ~/Onedrive/).