{"id":2279,"date":"2021-10-18T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2021-10-18T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:15:17","slug":"start-google-drive-from-the-command-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treehouse-it.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/18\/start-google-drive-from-the-command-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Google Drive from the Command Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is mostly for anyone looking to start Google Drive remotely on a computer without needing to log on to the machine.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-how-to wp-block-yoast-how-to-block\"><p class=\"schema-how-to-description\"><\/p> <ol class=\"schema-how-to-steps\"><li class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"how-to-step-1634580661145\"><strong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\">Open Command Prompt<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\"><\/p> <\/li><li class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"how-to-step-1634580716708\"><strong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\">Type cd C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Drive File Stream\\52.0.5.0\\<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\">Make sure to change the version number to match the version number installed on the machine<\/p> <\/li><li class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"how-to-step-1634580720207\"><strong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\">Hit Enter.<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\"><\/p> <\/li><li class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"how-to-step-1634580730742\"><strong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\">Type start GoogleDriveFS.exe<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\"><\/p> <\/li><li class=\"schema-how-to-step\" id=\"how-to-step-1634580732954\"><strong class=\"schema-how-to-step-name\">Hit Enter.<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-how-to-step-text\"><\/p> <\/li><\/ol><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is mostly for anyone looking to start Google Drive remotely on a computer without needing to log on to the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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