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Hi there,

I heard that Google is making things more difficult for third party apps to access the Google Drive API. The following blog article is what I’m referring to.

https://blog.panic.com/end-of-the-road-for-google-drive-and-transmit/

Is this something that will affect FFS? Or have I ...

Hi Zenju,

I'm not sure if this helps but I wanted to add an observation. In the sychronisation settings I changed "Deleted files" from "Recycle bin" to "Permanent" and I received the same user permissions error when updating any files on the Google Drive end (files which needed to be deleted and ...

Thanks Zenju. I asked our IT support and have confirmed that my user has access to 3rd party apps and the Google Drive SDK API in the Admin console. He did make a suggestion – is is possible to save the .sync.ffs_db file outside of the Google Drive? I realise that it's currently setup to relate the ...

That's a bummer. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Hi,

I have a similar problem which I'm always hoping the next update will fix but so far it persists. I've just been ignoring it, which for the most part is fine but I miss out on the advantage of tracking moved files so files are deleted and transferred again if I move or rename files. I'm ...