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by jayjlawrence
16 Jul 2018, 20:09
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream
Replies: 6
Views: 4850

Re: Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream


Wow, that's a fatal bug in Google Drive, namely in that it returns false information (empy folders) instead of an error. What's insidious about this case is that there's no way to detect this from FreeFileSync or any other application.

There's one thing to bear in mind. The actual target folder ...
by jayjlawrence
12 Jul 2018, 21:49
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream
Replies: 6
Views: 4850

Re: Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream



Second is activate "Ignore errors" feature. Been there, done that, had a f@@king disaster because of it, will never turn that feature on again. @zenju I can tell you offline what happened if you're interested.

Yes, that would be interesting. "Ignore errors" *should* always be safe in that it ...
by jayjlawrence
11 Jul 2018, 22:34
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream
Replies: 6
Views: 4850

Re: Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream



In my ideal world I would like to see these two features:
- option to skip Error Code 45 errors
- a log generated of all Error Code 45 files: path and attributes(timestamp, size, etc.)


Generally I'd say this is best solved via the exclude filter if the problematic files are known beforehand ...
by jayjlawrence
10 Jul 2018, 16:52
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream
Replies: 6
Views: 4850

Mirror/Sync with Google Drive File Stream

I am sync'ing to/from a Google Drive File Stream source on a Mac. This works fine for normal files but there are "cloud" file types that cannot be exported from the File Stream. Files such as .gsheet and .gdoc. These files are "in the Google Cloud" for use by apps "in the Google Cloud" and getting ...