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Great. This looks resolved with teffers' 9/14/2024 post. Thank you

Thanks for such a thorough analysis of the problem. FFS definitely is deleting files with a different api than the Windows Explorer. Google Drive only supports whatever Explorer is doing so it'd be great if FFS figured it out and deleted files the same way.
Until then, I am manually deleting files ...

I have not found any solution. What I do now is use FreeFileSync to compare and then make deletions in the Google Drive through Windows Explorer. Then I use FFS to sync the rest.
I assume FFS is using different underlying system calls than the Windows Explorer.
I use Google Drive in streaming mode ...

It isn't identical so question is why. Google Drive for Desktop must not key off of the Windows API when a file is deleted. There is likely an extra step that could be implemented as like I said it does work when the File Manager deletes a file.
The use I have is like a document repository were the ...

I use FreeFileSync to sync a directory with a directory within Google Drive for Desktop.
When I delete a directory or file in the local directory and then use FreeFileSync to sync the local directory with the directory within Google Drive for Desktop:
- The file/directory is deleted in the local ...