<![CDATA[Recently Google Drive stopped syncing to a network folder. This has been a conundrum for many of us that put it there so we can access it from various locations. There is a work around.
- Download the old version of Google Drive that did work.
- Uninstall Drive and install the version above. You can point it to any share during the install process.
- Disable Google Updates in the Task Scheduler. If you don’t it will just update and break itself. This will disable Chrome updates as well, so it is a trade off.
- Make a new registry entry to disable Drive Updates.
- Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\
- Right click on the right hand pane and select New- Key, and name it Google
- Click on the new Google key (looks like a folder) to enter the folder.
- Right click in the right hand pane and select New- DWord 32bit value
- Name it DefaultUpdate and make sure the value is 0
- Reboot
Fingers are crossed that this works until Google changes it back to allow network shares again!
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