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HOWTO Mount Amazon Cloud Drive on Ubuntu

scrathe edited this page Jun 20, 2015 · 11 revisions
Install Prerequisites
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-appdirs python3-dateutil python3-requests python3-sqlalchemy python3-pip
Install acd_cli
cd  ~
sudo pip3 install --upgrade git+https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli.git
Initiate "sync"

The "sync" process will launch lynx/etc shell browser to grab your oauth key from Amazon.

acd_cli sync

Copy/Paste and store your oauth data. Note: it will most likely have improper newline breaks. Fixup in your favorite text editor.

vi ~/.cache/acd_cli/oauth_data
Add user to "fuse" group

sudo addgroup <username> fuse

Mount

e.g. mount the root of your Amazon Cloud drive to the /media/amazon directory

acd_cli mount /media/amazon

Upload

 -d     exclude duplicate files from upload
 -x     upload threads

e.g. Upload your local /media/tardis-x/media/TV directory to the root of your Amazon Cloud Drive.

acd_cli upload -d -x 4 /media/tardis-x/media/TV /
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