I used my home computer for desktop Google Drive with my work email account. Once I left the company, they changed the password on the account. I would now like to use Google Drive desktop with my personal email address. I am not able to access preferences to disable the old account since I don't know the new password they established for that account. How can I disable desktop Drive with that account and initiate desktop Drive with my personal account, without knowing the password for the work account?
Thank you!
If you are using Google Drive on a Mac you need to delete some files in order to re-sign in.
Close Google Drive by clicking on the icon in the menu bar and choosing Quit Google Drive. There is no need to uninstall the app.
In your home folder (/Users/username/) go to Library/Preferences/ and delete two files:
com.google.GoogleDrive.plist
com.google.GoogleDrive.plist.lockfile
Then navigate to another folder in your home folder, Library/Application Support/Google/Drive/ and delete all the files and folders.
Now restart Google Drive and you will be able to sign in with your personal account.
Unfortunately, as I have had experienced, going this way, you lose at least all files that were pending synchronization by this point.
So at least you need to save all your not-synchronized-yet files and re-move them to Google Disk folder later.
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Can i create a partition on my harddrive and then put bilocker encryption on it and then some how setup my desktop windows application such that it can access that drive but at the same time no user or atleast no user without admin privileges is able to see the contents of that drive,
But my desktop application should be able to access the bitlicker drive data irrespective of which user has logged in the system,
I have already looked into bit locker and how it encrypts and decrypts files but no where i have found a bitlocker API for using it within some othet app. Now I doubt if its even possible with bit locker to be used in this way
It is impossible to access bitlocker from another API. If there was another option, BitLocker security would have compromised. Microsoft has left no ways to open it. You may get some folder lock applications but they will also not allow you to set a program to access files within the folder when its locked. But you can try googling this, it will serve the purpose. Bitlocker is highly encrypted, in case you lose your password and key and there is no backup, there is almost impossible to access that part of your drive.
Hope that helps!
I have a folder in my server which contains daily backup of database and uploads. When I'm uploading this folder, it shows maximum execution problem due to large size of that folder. So I want to share that folder to google drive. Is there any way to share folder?
Based from this forum, it's not possible to sync Google Drive with folders outside of the original Drive folder.
Found this link - I need to sync files and folders outside "Google Drive" folder. which might help.
You can choose any folder during the Google Drive install.
Firstly select "Advanced Setup" on the second page of the Getting
Started screen.
Then click the "Change" button next to Folder Location
Select any folder you want, including network shares and mapped network drives.
You can also check on this related thread.
I have a problem with syncing data on Google AppDataFolder. I install an identical app on two of my devices and check in the Log file. It show that DriveIDs of App Data Folder is not the same. And because the folder IDs are different, everything is different.Therefore my two devices could not communicate data with each others, even that i use the same Google Email account to login on both.
Is it correct with Google Drive AppData Folder? Or i have done sth wrong so that data could not be synced?
I wonder if I re-flash my device with a different firmware, will the AppData Folder ID still be the same? If it's different, then Google Drive solution is completely a waste of time.
We have a requirement where we should provide capability to upload files up to 100 GB size. Current flow which we have is to put the file from client location/local system to the application server. Then application server pushes the file to a service account in Google Drive server. I would like to know if there is a way to push the file from local system directly to service account in Google Drive. This would help us to not have to store such big files in application server. Please let me know. Also would like to know if we can actually have Drive installed in our local system to point to a service account. This way these big files can be put into the drive location and it will be synced to server in the background.
I would like to know if there is a way to push the file from local system directly to service account in Google Drive
The only way I know is for you to upload them. The Upload Files page in the Drive API documentation details this feature. In your case, you'll have to use uploadType=resumable due to the file size you'll upload.
Also would like to know if we can actually have Drive installed in our local system to point to a service account
Syncing ala-Dropbox might be a bit tricky, I haven't read anything in the Drive documentation that has this feature. Syncing to desktop is usually just a .glink shortcut that will open up a browser.
I am testing a Google Chrome notebook. Whenever I download a file it goes to a folder called "File shelf" which is somehow connected to my Gmail account. Is it possible to access this folder on a "normal" system running any browser? I did not find how to do it yet. In general, is there a description on how to manage this folder: delete, copy to external storage (USB), etc?
The 'File shelf' is not connected to your Gmail. It's a place on the SSD. If you click 'Ctrl-M' you will get a folder with all the files on your local SSD.
Once you are in the folder - right click will give you the options to delete/rename each file.
If you want wish to do more with this new File API - here is a post I've wrote on it.
Good luck.