I have used certain OSes such as stock Ubuntu which use Gnome online accounts which sync accounts such as Google drive into one’s file manager and I tend to like that feature alot while not liking gnome (Although it can be used in Cinnamon) I am wondering if such a thing is feasible in UM and especially if there is interest, because right now I’m installing gnome and then am going to keep removing features until I find out just what is required to make it run I have seen other posts on the forum about such things but they were never answered so I just was seeing what the general opinion of the forum was on this, I also know there is Caja dropbox for dropbox, but I can’t seem to get it to work and I do not really use dropbox anyways
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Hi @Bernie,
open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and copy and paste the following command, that will give you the Gnome online accounts manager thingy:
sudo apt install gnome-online-accounts
I hope it helps. 
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I have tried that but it doesn’t pull enough of the gnome control center to
make it work, and besides that gnome not MATE, anyways I will try purging
online accounts and reinstalling and see if that work, but I would like
something that is MATE not Gnome, I respect Gnome, but…
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Don’t have another offer for you sorry. 
thank you for your help I am currently installing cinnamon control center
which may allow me to use it, I just wish I could figure things out to fork
it for MATE that would be good but as I can’t at least not now I will have
to patch it together, if i can
This is how I added it to my Lubuntu (with Mate panel)… Works great for me…
and it worked fine in my Mate installation
Installed with -
sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts
Then
Main commands I used was –
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
sed -i ‘/^OnlyShowIn/d’ ~/.local/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop
and then
sed -i ‘s/^Exec.*/Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center --overview/’ ~/.local/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop
Then you’ll find it under Settings in the menu…
After all that I went to the startup items and knocked off all the stuff i didnt want running
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thank you very much that does seem to work, I’m behind a filter right now,
but when I get to less filtered internet I’ll try and make sure it works,
It fitted just like a glove, thanks a lot.
BadAnimal,
Installed Mate about a month ago, followed your instructions and was able to load Google Drive via the online accounts “thingy”.
However, found it much easier for my workflow to just use Drive via a Browser. I have unmounted Drive however I still continue to see it under Devices and Computer in Caja.
Can’t seem to get the online accounts back up and running using the commands you provided so I can shut it off and completely eliminate it.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance.
If you want to remove it entirely just run sudo apt remove gnome-online-accounts which definitely erases the functionality
Thanks Bernie for the quick reply!!
i had same problem i solve this by removing " gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts " then reinstall it again.
commands i used :
sudo apt remove gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts
sudo apt install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center
after this i add online accounts in there so i could use them in os
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This is what worked for me as well. Removing the "--overview" got it working.
Thank you RamG! Your solution worked perfectly! 
I had searched a lot of forums and nothing quite worked right. Then I saw your solution it was simple, straight forward and most important of all it worked like a charm. Thanks man.
this command was exactly what I was looking for
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center
thank you so much that worked for me.