Comments on: Google Drive not Syncing (Mac)

By: Milly

Milly — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:56:31 +0000

Thanks for your article, I have a Macbook Pro 14″ 2021
but and am experiencing many problems with syncing, this explanation helps partly, but the drive is not syncing properly yet.
It is striking that people at my team with an older Mac sync well

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 04:09:32 +0000

In reply to Dan. Dan, I'm having exactly the same problem after Google Drive changed the drive location too... can't access any of my files but everything is synced. Have you figured anything out?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:25:34 +0000

Google Drive announced today that it has moved the drive location on my iMac to ‘Locations’. Fine, expect now when I open that location all I get is the spinning wheel and “Loading…”.

All my files are synced, nothing is available offline. I have tried deleting the cache and uninstalling/reinstalling Google Drive but no joy. It’s totally boned.

If anyone can help I would be really grateful.

Dan

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:03:44 +0000

My Google Drive for desktop always works for my own personal gmail account, but when connecting to my work account through another gmail address, the sync doesnt load, so the files do not load. I tried everything in the article with no change. Any ideas please? The work account used to work until a month ago. It loads the files on the browser but fails to sync to the desktop on my Imac Pro running MacOSVentura 13.1.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:00:41 +0000

Thank you Martina – your instructions are the clearest and most relevant I’ve found.

By: Gerry McCann

Gerry McCann — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:56:32 +0000

Hi Martina,
My Google Drive had not been working, I think since macOS took over the folder locations. I have two Google Drives corresponding to two accounts. There was no Drive icon showing in the menu bar. Among other things I tried starting Google Drive manually from the applications folder. It then flashed on and off in the menu bar several times before disappearing.
Anyway your suggestion from above to “Delete Google Drive cached files” mostly solved the problem. Everything is working now as expected though I have had one of the accounts, but not the other one, crash. That resulted in an Apple window explaining the reason for the crash (I didn’t note the details). Everything is working again so maybe it will be good from now on.
One other observation is that when the location change occurred the behavior seemed to change from mirroring to streaming without any input from me. Is this normal?
Lastly, great job on the article. Don’t know how you figured all this out. Also, wording is unambiguous, a rarity now for technical articles.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:54:20 +0000

I have a 2021 MacBook Pro with M1 chip and Google Drive use to appear on my menu bar. Now when I go to the menu bar, it’s disappeared,. I’ve tried rebooting, reloading, but can’t seem to get GDrive online.

By: Jim Cooper

Jim Cooper — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:45:37 +0000

Deleting that Library folder worked for me. (Monterrey Desktop.)

I”d restarted and reinstalled GD multiple times with no success. Thank you!

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:38:13 +0000

In reply to Juan Matte. I have this problem as well. It becomes frustrating working with a team and we do not see files after knowing they have been put in a folder. Only going to Google Drive web version and navigate to the folder or file, does it show up on the desktop version. iMac mid 2015 with macOS Monterey V12.6

By: Aneta

Aneta — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:53:59 +0000

In reply to Oscar Gonzalez. Do you have "Enable Spotlight to search streaming files" checked? There is such option in Google drive settings