I keep my live files in Dropbox as offline files, as recommended, but my backups live in Google Drive as online-only files to save space (or file streaming as Google calls it). This has worked fine for at least a couple of years, but in the last few days, Scrivener can’t find the backup directory until I re-link to it.
It isn’t a showstopper and I guess it’s something Google has changed in the way Drive works, so I wondered (a) if you’re aware of it and (b) anything I can do about it.
I am using an old MacBook Pro that’s stuck on OS 11.7, so issues like this are becoming more common as it ages long past reasonable hope of support.
I hope those are ZIP backups. Google Drive is known to be unreliable with unzipped Scrivener projects.
https://scrivener.tenderapp.com/help/kb/cloud-syncing/google-drive-advisory
From Scrivener’s point of view, it always saves to a location on the local hard drive. It has no awareness of any cloud service that might be managing that location. The issue lies somewhere between Mac OS and Google Drive.
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