#GOOGLE DRIVE FOR MAC/PC IS GOING AWAY DRIVE FILE STREAM DOWNLOAD#
Google File Stream does not actually download any files to your computer in order to sync them, it is simply mirroring files so they show up in Google File Stream for easy accessibility through the desktop app. We asked how long does it take to sync 800GB of files from Google Drive to Google File Stream, and they told us about 2 hours. The Google Drive support person told us that the Google File Stream was created from the idea their customer had where they wanted to have access to their Google Drive files without taking up space on their computer. We asked why is this? They told us that this is because Google File Stream is continually looking to see if any of the files on Google Drive have been updated, and is syncing them regardless if they were updated since the last sync or not. They told us that this is normal because Google File Stream will always and forever be syncing files that are on Google Drive over and over even if they have not been updated since the last time they were synced. We asked Google Drive support why it was taking over a month of 24/7 syncing to sync 2GB of files?
This is done by right-clicking on each folder/file – going down to Drive File Stream – and selecting Online Only. We have 800GB of files on our Google Drive, so we only wanted to sync 2GB of these files with Google File Stream on one of our Mac’s, and for the rest of the files (798GB) we selected the “Online Only” option. Why is Google File Stream Syncing Forever?
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