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google-drive macos fileprovider rsync xattr sync cli content-pipeline

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Google Drive for desktop: mv inside the mount keeps the uploaded object, and a folder you just created is invisible to the item-id index

Two behaviors of the macOS Google Drive FileProvider mount that matter when a script stages files into it and then verifies delivery. Both observed 2026-09-03, Drive for desktop on macOS 26, Shared Drive mounted under ~/Library/CloudStorage/GoogleDrive-<acct>/Shared drives/<name> . 1. A rename/move…

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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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