Quit Google Drive (but don’t logout of your account, or you’ll have everything erased locally and replaced by your online Google Drive content).Ĥ. Here are the steps I used to bring it all back:ġ. I also lost the check mark file indicators in my local Google Drive so everything was wholly disconnected. I had the same problem with losing the list of synced files. Yes, you make an excellent point, and I should have more fully explained this in my article. That was a “Nuke Solution” that would take forever and also remove files that hadn’t yet synced - and I had no idea how many un-synced files I had locally - so I tried this “remove the barfing files” solution and it worked! Turns out those four files were the only non-synced local files. If I logged out of the Google Drive App, I was warned that everything online would be downloaded and everything local would be erased. I thought maybe my problem was related to me moving folders into other folders online and that was confusing Google Drive with the local sync - so I stopped that for awhile but it didn’t heal the problem.
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There’s no real reason for it or any predictability. The sync can choke on a variety of files. It doesn’t make any sense, really, why Google chokes on certain local files for the upload. Of course, all her files synced perfectly on the first try. SMILE! Janna received her message that her Google Drive was ready about 18 hours after she first requested to be put in the queue. It’s magnificent having so much cheap storage space online that now just simply syncs to provide a local mirror and that provides incredible ease-of-use and untold delights of the mind.Ĭool! Glad you have Drive now! It is entirely addicting. I used Google Docs all day long for writing and editing and publishing and now, with the rise of Google Drive, my usage will only increase and my workflow will continue to get better. As well, the folder-within-folder changes I made online were also live in my local Google Drive. I waited another 10 minutes and checked my local Google Drive folder and the four “problem” files were in the right folder and everything had perfectly synced for the first time.
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I simply dragged those files from my Mac desktop into my Chrome browser, and all four files uploaded the proper directory without pause or concern. I drilled down to the same folder that held the problem files and saw, as I suspected, they were not in the online Drive. I decided to go online to my Google Drive. PSD files that are larger than the four that caused Google Drive to barf, so I knew I wasn’t hitting a file size upload limitation. I waited about 10 minutes and - for the first time in a day - the sync was complete! I opened the folder with the circular arrows and looked for red check marks on the files - those were the problem files I had to remove from the folder by dragging them to my Mac desktop.Īfter removing the four problematic local files from my Google Drive folder, I quit Google Drive and restarted it. Circular arrows meant that folder was in the process - OR NOT! - of syncing. Green check marks meant everything was good. I looked for the tiny icons Google Drive added to the file identifiers to indicate the file’s sync status. I opened up my local Google Drive folder and drilled down to the problem folder and files. I believed those files only resided on my local Google Drive and had not yet uploaded to my online Google Drive. PSD files that were quite large: 5.7MB, 6.3MB, 7.8MB and 8.9MB and Google Drive was choking on them for some reason. The App will give you a list of problem files. The first thing you need to look for if your Google Drive has stopped syncing is for the list of files that Google Drive is having trouble syncing. Today, I will share with you the fix I found that worked for me and might just get your Google Drive syncing again with your local Mac computer.
If you are experiencing the greyed-out “Unable to Sync” error message, you are left to your own cure because there isn’t an official solution online from Google yet and the App itself offers no advice. I did have a problem for a day that was annoying and took some sleuthing to find a fix. I’m currently using 52% of my 80 gigs and everything is now online and properly backed up.
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