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<div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://forum.rclone.org/u/Benny_4'><span itemprop='name'>Benny_4</span></a> (Benjamin) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-steam-library-mac/48852"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time datetime='2024-11-29T23:47:34Z' class='post-time'> November 29, 2024, 11:47pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-11-29T23:47:34Z'> <span itemprop='position'>1</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Is there a way to have rclone connected to my googledrive and install steam games on it?<br> thank you very much in advance</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span 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src="https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/benny_4/48/18927_2.png" class="avatar"> Benny_4:</div> <blockquote> <p>rclone connected to my googledrive and install steam games on it?</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>yes, rclone should be able to do that, but, i think you will find it will not perform well, basically unplayable.</p> <p>give it a try, see what happens.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Like</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_3' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://forum.rclone.org/u/Dalo'><span itemprop='name'>Dalo</span></a> (google account) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-12-10T13:42:50Z' class='post-time'> December 10, 2024, 1:42pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-12-10T13:42:50Z'> <span itemprop='position'>3</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Playing games requires constant read and write operations.</p> <p>I'm thinking about AAA titles that require 60 GB of storage...</p> <p>That's contradictory in itself because rclone needs to have the files in the cache, which means the storage space is already taken from your hard drive. Additionally, you'll have to re-download games that you haven't played for a while.</p> <p>That won't make any sense.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="container wrap"> <nav class='crawler-nav'> <ul> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/' itemprop="url">Home </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/categories' itemprop="url">Categories </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/guidelines' itemprop="url">Guidelines </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/tos' itemprop="url">Terms of Service </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/privacy' itemprop="url">Privacy Policy </a> </span> </li> </ul> </nav> <p class='powered-by-link'>Powered by <a href="https://www.discourse.org">Discourse</a>, best viewed with JavaScript enabled</p> </footer> <div class="buorg"><div>Unfortunately, <a href="https://www.discourse.org/faq/#browser">your browser is unsupported</a>. 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