#GOOGLE BACKUP AND SYNC CHANGE FOLDER UPDATE#
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Again, this is irritating and I don't really understand why it had to be done like this. And I have to be careful where I save new files and where I open old files from. So the upshot is I now have two google drives in my /users folder, both of which are taking up 2.5Gb of space. I guess I will just have to make sure that I open all files from the new 'My Drive' in Finder rather than from recent files in Word or Excel, at least for the time being until the old ones disappear from the recent files. I've renamed the old google drive to avoid any confusion (I don't want to delete it just yet.) but this hasn't solved the issue of opening 'most recent' docs. I followed your advice - thanks very much for posting - and changed the preferences for the new google drive to mirror instead of stream, so I now have a new 'My Drive' folder in /users.

I also found that when I opened files in Word or Excel using the 'open recent' menu command, this would be the 'old' versions so they wouldn't sync in the new google drive. when I moved over to the new google drive, I found I still had the old one in my /users folder and documents were not syncing in between them. That 'new' volume doesn't seem to serve any purpose in my use case except for being really confusing, but it doesn't take up any hard drive space or affect anything really, so I guess I'll just ignore it.

#GOOGLE BACKUP AND SYNC CHANGE FOLDER UPDATE#

So basically, at least my case, it seems like that 'old' Google Drive folder does, in fact, contain offline copies of the original local files that got synched (and it will continue to update like I'd want, the way it did with Backup and Sync). Well, the 'stream files' link leads to the new Volume, and the 'mirror files' link leads to the 'old' Google Drive folder! Under each setting there's a link: under 'stream files' there's a link to the virtual drive where my files would be stored, and under 'mirror files' there's a link to the folder where my files would be locally stored (offline). In my case 'mirror files' was selected, which seems like what I want (probably the installation process noticed that this was the way I had things set up in Backup and Sync).

#GOOGLE BACKUP AND SYNC CHANGE FOLDER MAC#

If you go into preferences for the new Google Drive desktop app, on Mac the first thing that pops up is 'My Drive syncing options,' which has a choice to either 'stream files' or 'mirror files' (i.e. Okay so that's my 'problem,' but here's the solution (I think). So how do I get rid of the 'old' Google Drive folder, and how do I make sure all my files are stored locally in the new Volume like I want?

So my old Backup and Sync folder is still there, and worse, the new Volume doesn't have my files downloaded to it like I want the folders in the new Volume have a little cloud icon next to them in Finder, and they only contain like a few bytes of data, so clearly my 60+ GB of files aren't downloaded there. This 'new' one is actually not a folder but a Volume (as in, my computer thinks it's an external hard drive). Specifically, the 'old' Google Drive folder still exists at Macintosh HD/Users/, and now there's a 'new' one also called Google Drive which anchored itself at the top of my folder view in Finder. I followed all the installation instructions and left the options as they were (it seemed like it on both computers it found my locally stored Google Drive folder), and after the installation was done, I was frustrated to see that I had a new Google Drive folder but also the old one, just like you're describing. Yesterday after seeing the prompts to update, I went ahead and updated to the new Google Drive desktop app. I have a desktop and a laptop, and I had it setup so that my entire Google Drive folder was always synced with both computers, and the entire folder was downloaded and stored locally (offline) on both machines. I was having this same issue, but after looking into it, I think this behavior is the way it's supposed to be working? TLDR: I'm not 100% sure, but I think that 'left behind' folder actually contains the original local files that got synched (so it will continue to update like it used to with Backup and Sync), and you can basically just ignore that new separate drive.ДЇor context, I was a longtime user of Backup and Sync on Mac.

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