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Indeed! Google forced the new Google Drive client on me... On my M1 Mac it crashes constantly and the Finder pops up Google Drive disconnect dialogues constan

Indeed! Google forced the new Google Drive client on me... On my M1 Mac it crashes constantly and the Finder pops up Google Drive disconnect dialogues constantly. Two days into finally relenting and giving the update from Backup & Sync to the new Drive client another try, it's still churning through my files! It may never finish at this rate it constantly crashes! Google Drive on M1 macOS is bad. Really bad. :-/

boundlessdreamz 5y ago
Hmm..The original backup & sync was a resource hog on my M1 but the new Google Drive client is pretty resource efficient.
- firecall 5y ago
  It's not resource utilisation as such that is the issue! More that it crashes constantly! It could be the volume of files it's churning through. But still... 'cmon Google! If I use new Drive with my personal account, that only has ~200 or so files. Then no real issues. However, when I tell it to sync to a Google Drive account that has ~200k files.... then it chokes. I'm also telling it to download the files and store them on an external SSD, so they can be backed up by a 3rd party service! With a large number of files, the new Drive client isn't having a good day! :-)