The last couple of weeks have been, for me, one step forward and 10 steps back. I also add a Notepad doc to show folder locations on the C:\ so I can remember what I did - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to remember how to recreate in the future (in the event of revisions). The only option for me is to copy the file locally to a folder on the C:\ drive, get the work done (without the autobackup and recover afforded by Google drive, no less), then "archive" those back to the project file on Google Drive. I don't see how that workaround is remotely viable.
My 2022 PROJECT folder alone takes up 1.85 GB and contains 1,092 files and 145 different folders.
And several of my folders beneath that add many, many more characters to that path total - enough to have given me Windows file path errors before this change. It used to be 16 (e.g., G:\My Drive\Work). The path to the root Work folder is now comprised of 93 characters. Just my work folder has 70.3 GB and 114,391 Files, 7,906 Folders. I did a right-click for Properties on my Google Drive folder (now called ".shortcut-targets-by-id") I'm literally screwed and going to lose clients over this mess. And we have about 400 GB across 2 accounts affected by this. How this was not foreseen to be a problem for anyone using Google Drive on a Windows machine is beyond me. (The so-called "shortcuts" added ~84 characters to my file paths, and that doesn't include the folder and file name text!!!) Then if I move a file that has links within it from C:\ to Google Drive afterward for backup/sync, the embedded links are no longer valid anymore. This has caused me over a week's worth of problems and project delays with no end in sight, and the only workaround is to copy files to the C:\ drive and work there to keep path lengths manageable. But the mirror folders created on my D:\ drive still have the huge shortcut paths and seem to just point back to the G:\ drive (formerly the cloud storage locations)? Talk about redundant (useless, and a waste of hundreds of gigabytes of storage space). This would supposedly keep all my files in the cloud and return the file structure locally on my computer. I even logged on to Admin Console and changed from only streaming files (G:\ drive) to mirror files. It broke links within Excel files (links to other spreadsheets), CAD files, block files within CAD files, even shared folders assigned to our copier, scanners, scan to email, etc. Yes, I started having problems last week when the shortcuts were implemented on my Workspace account and Google Drive.
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