

If you take a closer look, you’ll see that while both value file access convenience, Drive for Desktop has a greater focus on ensuring that users are working more around the cloud, offers more. Note: The numeric folder name may change from machine to machine. While Backup and Sync is mostly used to sync and store Drive locally on your computer, Drive for Desktop streams all your content from the cloud. Smith Jewish Day School were automatically configured to store the standard user folders (Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, and the Desktop) inside the folder synced by the Google Drive desktop sync application. What the command above is doing is deleting the numeric directory from DriveFS: $ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/ $ du -sh * 224Mđ14104707028901901726 4.0KĜrashpad 4.7M Logs 20M Resources 12K account_db_sqlite.db 512K cef_cache 4.0K pid.txt 4.0K signin $ rm -rf * $ du -sh * 4.0KĜrashpad 4.7M Logs 20M Resources 12K account_db_sqlite.db 512K cef_cache 4.0K pid.txt 4.0K signin All Windows laptops and desktop assigned on a 1:1 basis to employees and students at Charles E. To clear cache without deleting credentials, you can delete just the cache content directory: rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/* The Backup and Sync desktop client from Google syncs the Google Drive folder in your computer with My Drive in Google Drive cloud automatically, same as what their old desktop Google Drive client did.

The side-effect of this is that it also deletes your credentials so you’ll need to login again. WARNING : If files are pending upload to Drive, deleting the cache may cause the files to be lost (see comment ). To delete the DriveFS cache directory using Terminal: rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/
