Hello all! First off, thank you for taking the time to read my post.
I had a hard drive failure and being the good boy I am had a local backup (in addition to my remote backup to google drive). I now have replaced my failed hard drive, restored all the content back onto the drive via the local backup. Now I want to keep it synced to Google drive again but it’s not playing nice.
The issue: When I select the folder(s) to sync with Insync, it ends up creating duplicates of the folders since they are already locally there. For example, there’s a “Photos” folder locally already which on my Google drive is a photos folder which is identical in content within the folder. Instead of just syncing the photos folder and noticing it has everything already, it creates a “Photos (2)” and starts to download/sync stuff causing a duplication. I have about 8 folders I am trying to resolving this issue with.
Attempts: So I have tried to cheat the program/system by telling it to sync, waiting until it creates the folder but not download any of the content residing within the folders. I then pause the sync progress, close Insync and then do a symbolic link to my content. For example it will create /sync/Insync/Photos and then I will remove that newly created folder and create a symbolic link to from /sync/Insync/Photos -> /vault1/Photos (this is the original location where the content is actually located).
Again, thank you for any help and taking the time to read this. I hope I can resolve this soon before my computer goes on the fritz again!
