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Google Drive

Fix Non-Syncing / Location Change

Fix Google Drive on macOS not syncing or having switched to the wrong location (~/Library/CloudStorage/GoogleDrive-<account>/ - this was forced by an Apple change):

  1. Quit Google Drive app

  2. Check it's no longer running:

pgrep -f DriveFS
  1. Move the database to force it to rebuild after restart:
mv "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS" \
   "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS.bak.$(date +%s)"
  1. Re-open the Google Drive app:
open -a "Google Drive"

  1. Sign in

  2. Reconfigure Preferences -> set Mirror Mode and choose the location as ~/Google Drive

  3. Wait for it to reconcile

  4. Verify new files were sync'd

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