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ronw

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#289069 10-Aug-2021 18:33

I have just installed the new Google Drive for Windows App. For some reason I now have my original Google Drive folder with around 10 Gb of files, (I subscribe to Googles 100Gb plan), and Drive has created a new G Drive and inside that it has shortcuts pointing back to my original folder containing the 10 Gb files. This new Drive shows a size of 100Gb and then says content is 82 Gb with 18Gb free. I can sort of see what Google is trying to do but I don't really want a duplicated structure of my original Google Drive Folder.

Has anyone else had this experience and can I delete the 100Gb drive that google has so kindly created

Nokia 7 Plus
Nexus 6P 32Gb
Nexus 6 Phone
Nexus 5 Phone
Nexus 7 2013 Tablet
Samsung TAB A 8"
Samsung TAB A 10"

& many Windows laptops, Desktops etc

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#2758241 10-Aug-2021 22:20

With the old Google Drive, the files on your local drive where basically a copy of the files in Google Drive. You could access these files without Google Drive. Not really secure & potentially a lot of space used up locally if you decided to sync everything in Google Drive.

With the new Google Drive Filestream, files are in their own cache & encrypted. Now you have to load Google Filestream to access the files.

Having said that, would check the configuration / location of the file cache before deleting.
Then, I'd delete a few files from the old location & see if the changes replicate into Google Drive. If they do, simply restore from the Recycle Bin or better yet, start with some dummy files.
If the deletions don't replicate to Google Drive, I'd clean up myself & delete the old local copy.

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