Realtime Sync

[Grumpy]

Hi. I'm sure everyone hates questions from newbies, so sorry. I just installed FreeFileSync and my goal is to sync two computers through Google Drive. So I set up Two Way Sync on each computer, using the source files from each computer on the left and Google Drive as the target on the right. I hope that's right so far. Then I set up RealTimeSync because I want them to continuously sync. I put everything I wanted synced in a folder on Google Drive, but every time I run RealTimeSync I get this error: The gdrive protocol does not support directory monitoring. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

[Plerry]

You are not doing anything wrong. The message tells you it is not possible, because the (remote) Google Drive does not support (at least the RTS method of) Directory Monitoring.
Read the third bullet of the Limitations in the RealTimeSync Manual section
So, it is likely better to use scheduled tasks.
Or work via local Google Drive folders (RTS should be able to monitor such local Google Drive folders for changes) and leave syncing to/from the cloud to the Google Drive app.

[Grumpy]

Thanks for your prompt answer, Plerry. I'm, of course, very disappointed. I was SO close to having what I thought was the perfect system.

I'm trying to wrap my head around how to do this, but I'm finding it difficult. When you say to work via local Google Drive folders, do you mean that I should have a backup of everything that I want synced on a local Google Drive and then sync that to the cloud?

Please tell me if I've got straight what I should do if I want everything in a folder on my F drive, 29 gigs of it, to be synced with an analogous folder on my laptop. On my PC, I copy everything from my local F:\2sync to my local G:\Google Drive\2sync to start, then use the two-way in RealTimeSync to keep G:\Google Drive\2sync updated every time I make a change in F:\2sync, which RealTimeSync should detect. Then I install Backup and Sync from Google and use that to sync the local G:\Google Drive\2sync to a 2sync folder that I keep on the cloud's Google Drive? Then do the same on my laptop? I think I'm missing something, but I'll figure it out eventually...

[Plerry]

As already suggested, it is likely better to use scheduled tasks.
Or use the Google tool.

[Grumpy]

Thanks. :)