How to install and use the Megasync client on the Linux desktop

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If you're looking for yet different unreality retention provider, 1 that offers a Linux desktop app, Jack Wallen believes Megasync mightiness beryllium precisely what you need.

Mega.nz is simply a unreality work from New Zealand that offers a 20GB escaped relationship and includes each the bells and whistles you've go accustomed to with akin providers. And similar Dropbox, Mega.nz has a Linux desktop lawsuit that is not lone open source, it's conscionable arsenic casual to usage arsenic immoderate lawsuit successful the unreality space.

Mega.nz includes features like:

User-controlled end-to-end encryption.
Cross-platform clients for Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
Full sync oregon selective sync.
Supports two-factor authentication .
Password-protected oregon expirable stock links.
Built-in record versioning.
MEGAdrop allows you to make a folder anyone tin upload files to.
MEGAchat: audio/video calls utilizing MEGA's end-to-end encrypted chat.

I'm going to locomotion you done installing the Megasync GUI connected Linux, arsenic good arsenic integrating it with the Nautilus record browser.

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What you'll request

To usage the Megasync client, you'll archetypal request to motion up for a free account. Once you've done that, you'll request a moving Linux desktop. I'll beryllium demonstrating connected Pop!_OS 21.04 (which is based connected Ubuntu 21.04). If you usage a antithetic distribution, you'll request to change the installation instructions accordingly.

How to instal Mega.nz

Once you person your Mega.nz relationship created, caput implicit to the download page and download the desktop app and the Nautilus sync app (saving them to your ~/Downloads directory). Once those person some downloaded, unfastened a terminal model and alteration into the Downloads directory with:

cd ~/Downloads

Let's archetypal instal the desktop lawsuit with:

sudo dpkg -i megasync*.deb

That installation volition astir apt mistake out. Fix those dependency problems with:

sudo apt-get instal -f

Next, we'll instal the Nautilus integration with:

sudo dpkg -i nautilus-megasync*.deb

Restart Nautilus with:

nautilus -q

The Megasync.nz desktop lawsuit is installed and acceptable to go.

How to log into your relationship

This is tricky. When you archetypal motorboat the Megasync lawsuit (which tin beryllium recovered successful your desktop menu), it should unfastened a login screen. This did not hap for me. Instead, the lone happening that appeared was the notification tray icon. If I clicked connected the Settings entry, the Megasync model would open, but wouldn't let maine to interact.

Eventually, I figured retired however to bring up the login screen, by clicking the Megasync strategy tray icon and selecting Show Status (Figure A).

Figure A

At that point, the login model appeared, wherever I could participate my Megasync.nz relationship credentials. The Megasync desktop lawsuit setup wizard past opened (Figure B), wherever I selected Selective sync (because I privation to find what is to beryllium synced with my account.

Figure B

Finish walking done the wizard (it'll inquire you to prime a section and distant folder and that's it) and you're acceptable to go.

Since we installed the Nautilus integration, you tin present unfastened your record manager and right-click immoderate file/folder, and adhd it to your Megasync unreality sync (Figure C).

Figure C

And that's each determination is to installing and utilizing the Megasync desktop lawsuit connected Linux. If you're looking for an alternate unreality retention service, you can't bushed 20GB of escaped retention that includes an open-source desktop client. And if you upwind up enjoying Megasync.nz, you tin ever upgrade to a Pro account (starting astatine $5.85/month for 400GB of retention to $35.15/month for 16TB of storage).

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