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When you drag something out of your folder on your local machine, how does gdocs give you a warning? (I'm curious, having never tried it.)
by gknoy 13y ago
When you drag something out of your folder on your local machine, how does gdocs give you a warning? (I'm curious, having never tried it.)
- FigBug 13y agoI'm assuming there is a background process that monitors the folder for changes. On my machine there is about a 3.5 second delay between moving the file and getting the warning. And if you click "OK, move to trash" it only trashes it in gdrive, you still have the file wherever you moved it. It's not a finder dialog box and can get lost behind other windows. It's bizarre UI.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> I'm assuming there is a background process that monitors the folder for changes. I would assume its the same Google Drive background process that syncs changes made to files in the folder back to Drive, just using special handling for the case of "you moved a file that is a link to content in a Google web service and rather than a normal file".