> I don't sync folders. I mount my accounts as network drives. Implementation-wise under the hood is it really much different? In my simplistic, probably over

> I don't sync folders. I mount my accounts as network drives. Implementation-wise under the hood is it really much different? In my simplistic, probably overly naive idea it seems that a “network drive” built on top of Google Drive would still cache the files in memory, and improper shutdown or loss of network access could still leave your files in an inconsistent state. Probably they have a lot of advanced logic on top, that could roll back partial updates, or keep track of things so that the updates are not applied before sync is complete. But anyways from this point of view sync vs network mounted drive feels like sync is a kind of network mounted drive that flushes to local disk in addition to working with the remote. One of these days I want to build such things from scratch myself so that I can experience first-hand the horrors that lie underneath sync / network disk service setups modelled on my idea of Dropbox / Google Drive etc