Title: multiple Google Drive accounts = problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# multiple Google Drive accounts = problem

 *  Resolved [mcmikemn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcmikemn/)
 * (@mcmikemn)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-google-drive-accounts-problem/)
 * I think there is a minor problem when using Google Drive (and possibly other 
   remote storage options).
 * I have a Google Drive account that I use all the time, and I’m usually logged
   into it in a tab of my Chrome browser, which is also the browser I use to work
   on my WordPress website with Updraft Plus. But I want to use a _different_ Google
   Drive account for Updraft Backups. So I logged into another browser (Firefox)
   and logged into the other Google Drive account, created the API, copied the Client
   ID and Secret and folder ID, and configured Updraft Plus.
 * When I ran a manual backup in Updraft Plus, it threw errors like “cannot find
   folder ID.” I removed the folder ID from the configuration so Updraft would use
   the root directory of my Google Drive account. When I re-ran a manual backup,
   I did indeed get no errors, but there were no files in the Google Drive account
   on Firefox. I happened to notice, though, that the backup files were on my other
   Google drive account – the one that was logged in in another tab in Chrome (the
   same browser that I was configuring Updraft with).
 * So it seems that regardless of the Client ID and Secret and folder ID, Updraft
   will use whatever Google account happens to be logged in. I’m guessing that means
   that Updraft is using a Google Drive login cookie to determine which Google Drive
   account to use.
 * In addition to entering Client ID and Secret and folder ID, can you have the 
   user also enter their login email and password, and have Updraft use _that_ account?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/updraft/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/updraft/)

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 *  [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-google-drive-accounts-problem/#post-3554851)
 * Hi Mike,
 * You reported this against the ‘Updraft’ plugin – which is not the ‘UpdraftPlus’
   plugin.
 * Your account selection issue is part of how the OAuth mechanism that Google Drive
   uses works. Your browser, and what it is logged into, is part of the authentication
   flow. It can’t be changed at this end. Similarly, no, you can’t just use your
   email/password to log in. Google have implemented the ‘OAuth’ mechanism, using
   secrets and tokens; that’s how they chose to do it. It’s not under anyone else’s
   control.
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [mcmikemn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcmikemn/)
 * (@mcmikemn)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-google-drive-accounts-problem/#post-3554852)
 * Oops. Sorry about the misplaced post.
 * Thanks for the information, though. Good to know.

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 * [multiple accounts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multiple-accounts/)
 * [remote storage](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remote-storage/)

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 * Last reply from: [mcmikemn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcmikemn/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-google-drive-accounts-problem/#post-3554852)
 * Status: resolved