I just reinstalled my OS and I’m reinstalling applications. One of which is Google Drive. After installing it, I signed in, and proceeded to choose my old Google Drive folder but it would not let me. Saying “Google Drive Folder you selected is not empty, please select an empty folder”. Searching for solutions I found that there is none and I have to re-download everything from cloud storage into an empty folder.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/pRWtrdhUjuE%5B1-25-true%5D

*note: Installing Drive to a new hard disk, reformats, or image restores will require a new empty folder to be created and set as the sync directory. This is not a program error but is part of its design.

Maybe someone could redesign it then? It’s really inefficient to re-download everything.
I can’t believe Google Drive cannot figure this out. Dropbox did not have any problem, just re-indexed the files. I can also force re-check even unfinished torrent files, so it’s not that hard to check file name, size, hash matches…

I see this trend happening with Google’s software: getting more shiny and dumber, features and settings getting removed. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t pay for it: “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”

By the way I always design my software to randomly crash, they are not program errors 🙂

Also Google Drive installer should not kill (and restart) explorer.exe, it’s really f*@#ing rude!

Otherwise I like Google, they are providing us with some really fine free products, but I don’t think I will want to convince anyone to buy extra storage space from Google, because the initial syncs of a couple 100 GBs would make us tear our hair out pretty soon, and that is not a good look for me…