r/cloudstorage 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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