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1. Google backup and sync on mac cannot shut down manual#
2. Google backup and sync on mac cannot shut down Offline#

Google backup and sync on mac cannot shut down Offline#

Sure, it would be great if you could add a simple filter to a folder selected to be available offline right within Google Drive for Windows itself, but at least there are available methods to achieve the same result.

Google backup and sync on mac cannot shut down manual#

This product FreeFileSync (please evaluate on your own, I found it from this article and have not used it myself, it's donateware) would allow you to sync a local folder to Google and also have exclusions as well as turn on a realtime-sync (check the manual page). You could alternately use other 3rd party sync products, just make your local drive the source and the mapped Google drive the destination. Robocopy does let you build exclusions in it, but as a command line sync tool, it's up to you to build the sync, and it works best as a one-way sync and scheduled task. I use robocopy during migrations from Windows Server up to Google through the drive app all the time.

So instead of marking a folder in Google Drive as available offline from it's settings, you could instead use robocopy to sync data from your desktop up to Google Drive with the /mir switch, which will mirror your data from local to cloud. It occurs to me that you can accomplish what you're looking for with a different tool to sync your data.

Currently, if you mark a folder for offline access, it will permanently take up space in the place you have set in preferences for the local cache folder, and as you indicated it doesn't let you set a filter. The new Google Drive for Windows may remove the sync with filter option on the default G: drive it creates. So I was thinking about this topic in the back of my head all day after reading your dilemma earlier this morning. New items are added approximately every quarter, when launched features are removed from the list. Learn about the publicly announced products and features planned for Google Workspace (G Suite). Having a problem with Google Workspace (G Suite)? Check here before asking: Want to find out what's coming or what's new in Google Workspace (G Suite)? Check here: If you use an affiliate link in a post or comment on this subreddit, please be sure to clearly mark it as an affiliate link.

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