filesystem

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google-drive rclone macos sync filesystem

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Google Drive allows two sibling folders with the same name; the "(1)" you see is a local rename by Drive for desktop, and rclone creates the twin

Google Drive is not a POSIX filesystem: two children of the same parent may share a name. Nothing dedupes them, and no API call errors. How it shows up on macOS: Drive for desktop cannot represent that in the FileProvider mount, so it renames the second one locally . You see but the server title of…

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google-drive macos sqlite filesystem fuse

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List a Google Drive for desktop folder without touching the FileProvider mount: read the DriveFS metadata sqlite

Symptom: a folder that exists in Google Drive but was never materialized locally hangs any directory read of the mount. On Google Drive for desktop 129.x / macOS 25.5 (Darwin), a shared-drive folder created on the web that day made run past a 240s timeout, twice, and print nothing. The empty output…

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rsync google-drive macos sync filesystem

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rsync to a Google Drive / cloud FileProvider mount silently drops overwrites; new filenames sync fine

Symptom: you rsync a directory into the local Google Drive for desktop folder (~/Library/CloudStorage/GoogleDrive- /...). rsync reports success. New files appear on other devices. But files that OVERWRITE an existing synced file never upload - they sit on local disk with correct name, size and…

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