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Hi t0ma5! I'm wondering if you had thoughts on this:


t0ma5 , you said you are the only one with access to your Shared Drives, but that they are managed by different organizations. Do you sometimes access them using email addresses that differ from whatever email you've connected FFS to? You also ...

Fixed. File notification handling is now per drive:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/eyyx8uvecp96pxg/FreeFileSync_11.11_%255BBeta%255D_Windows_Setup.exe

Thank you very much for the time and effort to solve this issue. Thanks also jpgill86 for contributing to finding the root of the problem! You ...

what would be the best work-around for this problem?

Do you have a file ID for a file that is not shown as existing in FFS? Zenju, 06 May 2021, 13:29

not now since I "FIXED" the database yesterday for the last time. In a few days I will face the problem again. What exactly should I do then? Happy to send u the logs but I need further instructions, pls! :)

We could even do this retroactively, since Google Drive change notifications are persistent . So the next time you encounter the situation that a file exists but is not shown in FFS, don't touch anything, but retrieve its ID . We'll then try to extract the change notifications via the Gdrive v3 ...

Shared drives means someone else is also having access to these drives? Maybe they are doing something with it?

Yes and No. Let me explain.
The SHARED drives belong to me, I gave no access to anyone. Of course the Google Suite admin of each organization has access to them. I see what your logic ...

E.g. is the shared drive disconnected, and connected again, or some permission/owner change of the shared drive or one of these folders. Or something else?

No idea but I can tell you that I use those extra SHARED DRIVES as mirror backups ONLY. No other app has access to them in any way. The only ...

Is there some way to reproduce this, or some test account that I could analyze from my end?


This is exactly what I do:

• I have 3 SHARED DRIVES on my Google Drive, let's call them A, B and C
• I manually upload content to A on daily basis. Mostly folders with a few large video files inside (2 ...

maybe you would take a look to GoodSync or Gs RichCopy360 , I think you will not face this problem with these tools , search both KinsleyProk, 06 May 2021, 08:45

Those options are painfully slow compared to FFS

Hi jpgill86!

I have encountered this problem many times already, the more I run syncs the more often it happens.
For the time being my work-around is to delete the DB file in
C:\Users\YOU_NAME\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync\GoogleDrive
and run all the scans again to rebuild a new DB that works for X ...

The real question is why the database file got corrupted in first place. Are you able to simplify and replicate this issue? If yes, I can have a look and make sure it gets fixed.

Thanks, I will try your tip next time it happens. And no, I can't replicate it. It seems to happen after X time using ...

It keeps happening, after certain time FFS starts to give errors and the only way to "fix" it is re-installing :(

EDIT: A quick fix is to delete the DB file in
C:\Users\YOU_NAME\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync\GoogleDrive
and run all the scans again to rebuild a new DB that works for some time until ...

UPDATE: Re-installing FFS solved the issue. I reloaded my saved profiles (untouched) and they worked again as expected. So it was not a miss configuration but some sort of glitch...

the source folder
Is that a "real" (i.e., not some "virtual") local folder on your HDD?

no, both folders are TEAM DRIVES and it worked just fine for weeks, no problem at all (until now).
I even tried GoodSync to see if I get the same reading errors and that's not the case, only with FFS

Hi guys. I use FFS to sync/mirror two Google Team Drives (AKA Shared Drives) and it used to work perfectly, but not anymore, this is my problem:

FFS was working just fine until two days ago when out of the blue, without changing any configuration or setting, FFS stopped reading files correctly in ...