1/10/2024 0 Comments Google drive for mac pro![]() ![]() I renamed it – yes, you guessed it – as Samsung_T5_2TB. I had an ageing, essentially unused Western Digital Firewire drive with nothing on it. ![]() Well the approach I took was rather unconventional, but it worked. If my theory was correct, how to recover? My conclusion was that the “old” settings from the original version of Google drive, from my “old” MacBook Pro, had been migrated along with all my other settings, when I migrated across to this new iMac in 2020. So I was mystified? How had these Google Drive configuration settings acquired details of an external drive that had never been connected to this machine? Nothing too special about that you’d think – As the name implies, it is the name of one of those Samsung T5 SSDs, and a 2 Terabyte one I own ….īUT, then I began to think about it a bit more deeply … That particular SSD had never, ever been plugged into this Mac – my current, reasonably powerful 2020 iMac – never …īut, this iMac had been “migrated” from my former MacBook Pro – where that Samsung SSD probably would have been used as the location for my “cloud” based provider storage – so the location where my Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox repositories would have been … BUT … that external drive had never, ever been plugged into this machine, and while Google Backup and Sync the local storage for my Google Drive documents was a non-removable external drive – a thunderbolt 3 240v powered drive. It was the name of a disk volume – Samsung_T5_2TB. I skimmed through one of these logs not really expecting to see much they’re rather long, and although I didn’t see much at first, something caught my eye. The “Drive_FS” logs were much longer files, but reviewing them provided “Gold” When I examined the Logs folder, there were a number files present, and in one of them I found the answer to my issue! The “chrome_debug” files contained messages that indicated there were DNS issuesĪt first I thought these DNS related issues might be the root cause of the problem, but they weren’t. You should only ever change the configuration of Google Drive through its settings / configuration dialogs. Let me emphasise – DO NOT change any of the files in this folder – the only reason I went to this folder was to help me diagnose what the issue was. Upon examining this location, there were several folders there, as shown below: The DriveFS Folder where Google Drive config info can be found ~/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS After some research, I found that many of Google Drive’s configuration and settings files are located at the following location: I finally made progress by investigating some of the key directories associated with the Google Drive installation. None of these assisted making things work, and the number of times I uninstalled, and re-installed Google Drive, was astonishing. Manual Installation, after comprehensive uninstallation.Specific comprehensive uninstallation steps.I checked with a variety of knowledge base articles that suggested a variety of approaches to address this situation, including: I knew the authentication was working correctly – I used Gmail as my mail provider. I should have taken screen shots of the specific message, but now I have finally got it all working, I don’t want to go back and “break” it again! This process always got into a loop – successful authentication, followed by the message that Drive couldn’t connect to the Account, asking me to “Disconnect” the account. Obviously, I needed to login to my Google Account to connect, so Drive launched a browser to perform the authentication, all good.īut then I was presented with a message that Drive couldn’t connect to the Account, and asked whether I wanted to “Disconnect” the account. Having installed the newest version of Google Drive for Desktop, I encountered the most bizarre issues. I began to do that recently, thinking it should be simple. The move back to this latest version of Google Drive for Desktop promises to deliver some really impressive additional features and Google has been advising users to transition to this new version. Across several Macs and many versions of OS X and now Mac OS, I’ve used a variety of versions of Drive, and – from memory – I think they’ve been called: One of them is Google Drive, and given my personal productivity platform of choice is mac OS, I’ve been following the various incarnations of Google Drive on that platform. ![]() I use a number of cloud storage providers. ![]()
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