Google Drive - Unable to Sync
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThis problem happened to me recently. I use my Google Drive like crazy and love it. 50,000 files and 13GB. Mostly portable apps and website backups (many files small size). Recently I decided to reorganize my Drive to allow for some of my data to be encrypted (using boxcryptor, but thats another story). So here I was moving around all sorts of files, combining other file systems into it, dragging and dropping documents before they were sync'd in the first place, etc. I did it this way to see what Google Drive is and isn't able to handle (dont worry I backed up before I did this).
My setup
This is not my main computer, its just one I threw together with best parts I could find laying around.
- CPU: Core 2 Quad q6600
- RAM: 3.5GB @ 667 DDR2
- HDD: WD Black SATA 2 7200 (about 90MB/s write tested)
- Network: 1000mbit direct to cable modems internal router
- WAN: 50mbits download, 20mbits upload
- Actual WAN: 36mbits down, 11mbits up
- OS: Win 7 x64
- Software: Google Drive PC app (all of this)
Steps I took
- Deleted 49,948 (12.77GB) files from my Google Drive
- Status: Syncing 49,948 items
- Copied 32,294 (4.9GB) back into my drive immediately
- Status: Unable to sync (in right click menu there is a ! at the top)
- Before they were marked with the sync icon, I moved around 10,000 files into new directories on Google Drive
- Status: Syncing 10,000 items (really close to 10k, cant remember)
- Created an encrypted section of my drive during this sync
- Status: Unable to sync
- Put 13,375 items into my encrypted section of my drive using boxcryptor
- Status: Syncing 66 of 1188
- Watched what happened
- Unable to sync (about 30 min passes)
- Syncing 1,299 of 6,737 (about 30 min passes)
- Unable to sync (15 min or so passes)
- Syncing 3,619 of 11,180 (20 min passes)
- Unable to sync (5 min or less passes)
- Syncing 7,551 of 43,710 (1 hour passed, still going though.)
Conclusion
Just wait it out