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How to clear Google Drive syncing queue on macOS?


Google Drive Desktop uploaded over 100K files to the cloud. However, the application shows that syncing is still in progress.

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Reinstallation and re-login have not reset the queue.

How to remove Google Drive syncing queue?


Solution

  • Quit the app and remove its data by the following command

    rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/[0-9]*
    

    More details in the article