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discussions on Google Docs and Drive sync

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   begood
   Member

   Please add an option to permanently delete on gdocs. Currently local delete result in file moved to trash in gdocs, which in turn causing me to max out on quota blocking further sync until I got into gdocs and empty the trash. This was never required in dropbox (I could sync remote computers for years without ever going to the dropbox web interface).

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   Phil
   Syncdocs

   Syncdocs has this option:
   1. Click on the free space task bar menu of Syncdocs (it will say something like "20% of 20GB used")
   2. Select the option to either "wipe trash" or "wipe trash older than 7 days"

   This will clear out some space used by the trash.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   begood
   Member

   Phil, that does not help with remote computers, or when leaving computer to sync overnight, since it still requires human interaction and active monitoring of the quota.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   begood
   Member

   By the way, looking at the google API documentation, deleting permanently is very simple to support (appending "?delete=true" to the URL).

   If Setttings_PermDelete = True
   MyURL = MyURL + "?delete=true"
   End if

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   Phil
   Syncdocs

   Syncdocs can do this, there is just no user interface for it.

   If you're up to editing .xml, then edit the file:
   c:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Syncdocs\[email protected]\appsettings.xml

   Find the value for "WipeOnDelete" on set it to true.
   <WipeOnDelete>true</WipeOnDelete>

   Any deletions on Google are then permanent, no bin filling up, but also no ability to un-delete.

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   begood
   Member

   Thanks! :-)

   Posted 1 year ago #

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