Google-drive problem with dolphin

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Hello everyone,
after a new installation of Manjaro KDE google drive cannot be integrated into dolphin. The app was blocked in the system settings by google when logging into the online account because it was unsafe. Now I have researched and found this:
[420280 – Google authentication process gets stuck due to excessively old version of signon-ui library](https://Bug in KDE)

I also found that there is a newer version of the kio-gdrive package in the AUR, namely 24.08.3-1:
[Arch Linux - kio-gdrive 24.08.3-1 (x86_64)](https://Arch Repo)

But if I enter

yay -S kio-gdrive

in the terminal, the currently installed version 24.08.1-1 should be reinstalled.

My questions:
Am I doing something wrong when installing the new package?

Will a new kio-gdrive package provide the solution?

Are there any other ways to solve my problem?

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Or you could just switch to Testing (or Unstable) branch, both of which have the newer version:

mbn info kio-gdrive -q
Branch         : archlinux
Name           : kio-gdrive
Version        : 24.08.3-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Wed 06 Nov 2024 02:00:00 
Packager       : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Branch         : unstable
Name           : kio-gdrive
Version        : 24.08.3-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Wed 06 Nov 2024 02:00:00 
Packager       : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Branch         : testing
Name           : kio-gdrive
Version        : 24.08.3-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Wed 06 Nov 2024 02:00:00 
Packager       : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Branch         : stable
Name           : kio-gdrive
Version        : 24.08.1-1
Repository     : extra
Build Date     : Wed 11 Sep 2024 19:39:49 
Packager       : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>

Switching branches is easy:

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch testing

sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syu
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Thank you, I was able to install the new package. But it didn’t make any difference. So the problem still exists.
Update: Now I don´t use dolphin with google-drive

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I removed the solution tick from your post as deciding to no longer use Dolphin with Google Drive is not an actual solution. The marking of a topic as “solved” is to indicate to other users experiencing a similar problem that they can find a practical solution to their issue by visiting that topic.

If you no longer want to receive notifications from this thread, under the last post there is an option to change the notification from “Watching” or “Tracking” or “Normal” to “Muted”.

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This is purely anecdotal.

I’m using Google Drive via kio-gdrive without any issue.

Warnings from Google seem to occasionally manifest with various applications. They are often aimed at promoting the use of Auth2 password authentication (actually a good initiative), but I’m aware some misinterpret warnings as all manner of voodoo.

As a Google Drive user, I’ve seen no warnings associated with the use of kio-gdrive.

However, I notice there have been other queries raised with KDE; though, nothing obviously related:

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