[Remind-Fans] save file .reminders in a cloud drive

[Tim Chase]

On 2018-09-27 09:31, Claudio Pighin wrote:
> Probably I'm doing something wrong.

Well, we can try and track it down.  Usually when you have one of
these remote folder-syncing services, it overlays a local folder such
as  ~/Dropbox or ~/GoogleDrive or some such directory name.  So the
aim would be to put your .rem file(s) in that folder and then create
a symlink between the file in that folder and ~/.reminders


> I did as follow:
> 
> 1) I saved file ".reminders" in my Google Drive > folder "System"
> which I can access by link
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx6Wrxk4TuEeEJtTz1fBs8MeW03OSWlk

The question is not what the URL is, but what the directory it's
mapped onto is.  It's hard to tell, but it might either be

  ~/System

or it might be a sub-directory of your mount-point 

  ~/"Google Drive"/System

If this is the case, then you can save it there with whatever name
you like (you don't need the prefixing "." which suggests it should
be hidden).  So you can create

  ~/"Google Drive"/System/reminders.rem

with your text editor.

> 2) I gave following command using such a link and adding the file
> name: remind -q
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx6Wrxk4TuEeEJtTz1fBs8MeW03OSWlk/.reminders

The `remind` binary expects a local file, not a URL.  So you'd specify

 remind -q ~/"Google Drive"/System/reminders.rem

For simplicity, you can symlink that file out into the default
location:

  $ cd ~
  $ ln -s "Google Drive"/System/reminders.rem .reminders

so you can just use "rem" instead of "remind ${full path to file}"

> Could it be a password problem?

Nope.  You should be accessing the local version of the file (to
which your operating system should already have access), not the
remote one.

So it would help to know:

1) which operating system you're using, and

2) what the exact local directory-name is for the place you're
putting the file.  On Linux/Mac/BSD, this is likely something like

  /home/claudio/Google Drive/


-tim