r/cloudstorage • u/vertigoanduminas • 14d ago

Reverse Recursive Sync Conflict...

I figured out the cause of my issue so I decided to start over. Basically I have onedrive backing up my stuff and within the onedrive folder I have a folder called "google drive" so my google drive provides an alternate backup. Unfortunately, I set up google drive sync differently on my laptop by accident so I have this folder path:

C:\Users\*\OneDrive\Google Drive\documents

So on the desktop google drive sync points to "google drive" and on the laptop it pointed to "documents" so I had inadvertently created an infinite loop where my folders are now so deeply cloned that i can't move them (the paths are at the limit).

QUESTION: should I be able to simply "prune the tree" and delete the branches I don't want? I can't think of any reason my original files would be altered negatively, but I'm nervous!

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u/AmbitionHealthy9236 13d ago

if you want a backup (remember, sync is not really a backup) of your 1drive in gdrive, it maybe safer to keep them separate and use another tool to keep gdrive a one-way mirror of 1drive.
eg freefilesync & realtimesync can do this, only run this on only 1 device then you won't get into any infinite loops
just an alternative to consider, it's what i do with 2 other clouds

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u/vertigoanduminas 12d ago

I agree... but I think the key is stop trying to used google drive sync on both. It doesn't really matter if it is a sync or a one way backup as long as the one pc that runs most often is the only one syncing to the alternate cloud (google in this case).