Google Cloud

Mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a Windows drive.

Before you begin

Prepare the following in advance:

• A Google account with access to the Google Cloud project — no access keys are needed; RaiDrive signs in with OAuth in your browser.
• On that project, a role that can list and read/write objects — for example Storage Object Admin (or Storage Object Viewer for read-only use), granted in IAM & Admin.

Help from Google

• Cloud Storage IAM roles
• Cloud Storage documentation
• Cloud Storage console

Connect

1. Click Add in the toolbar.
2. Choose Enterprise → Google Cloud.
3. Click the Refresh button next to the project field. Your browser opens — sign in to Google and click Allow.
4. Select the project, then the bucket, and click Connect.

Settings

Setting	Description	Default
Project	The Google Cloud project that owns the bucket	—
Bucket	The bucket to mount	—
Read-only	Blocks writes to the mounted drive	off

Behavior & limits

• Object storage has no real folders — renaming a large folder tree is a copy-and-delete of every object under the prefix.
• Storage classes with retrieval cost (Nearline, Coldline, Archive) can be opened, but reads incur the class's retrieval pricing — see Google Cloud: storage classes.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause	Fix
Project list is empty	Account has no role on any project	Ask the project owner for access, then Refresh again
Bucket list is empty	Role cannot list buckets in the project	Grant Storage Object Admin or similar on the project or bucket
Writes fail on a mounted bucket	Viewer-only role	Use a role with storage.objects.create permission