I did a bit of research & testing on my end and here's what I have found: Isn't this two way communication like backup and sync was? What's the difference between Folders from my computer and Folders from Drive. If I set up that preference from the current setting /Volumes/GoogleDrive -> /Users/doe/ODrive will that mess my ODrive folder and its content? I'd rather die than loose its content. Theres a preference settings in the new google drive allowing to choose your desired directory location for google drive.

How do I tell google drive to use those files and not download anything? If I choose to access any files offline it starts downloading them on disk taking unnecessary disk space since I already have all files downloaded on disk but on a different location /Users/doe/ODrive. It creates a virtual drive under /Volumes/GoogleDrive and at the same time makes a symbolic link to /Users/doe/Google Drive for quick access. The new google drive by default works like rclone. I have setup Backup and Sync to sync any files in the folder /Users/doe/ODrive which contains 16GB file size.Īfter migrating to the new google drive since backup and sync got deprecated, I see a different behaviour. I'm on OSX Big Sur, previously using Google Backup and Sync to sync files between my computer and google drive.

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