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Help on Google Drive sync

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   furashgf
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   I'm synching my "My Doucments" folder, which has a very simple 1-level structure - just one set of folders in it, not hierarchically nested. Sometimes, for some reason, it starts making copies of items in folders and putting them at the ROOT of My Documents. It doesn't move them out of their original folder, just makes a weird copy.

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   Andrew
   Syncdocs

   Google folders (or collections) allow a single file to be in multiple folders. Sometimes if you drag and drop a file between folders, instead of moving Google makes a copy. So Google lets a single file be both in "ROOT" and "My Documents" if you move it, but only sometimes, as I guess they're still working on it.

   Were these duplicate items uploaded by Syncdocs, or did you drag them inside a browser window?

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   furashgf
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   All I can say is that I hadn't touched the documents in months. It properly put them on my 2nd pc in a folder, and then, this morning, for no apparent reason, created copies of them at the root. When I check in google docs, they were also duplicated there, but I hadn't done it. I cleaned everything up and it hasn't reocurred yet.

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   nycbrown
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   +1 I saw this same behavior this morning, where I was suddenly seeing 2nd-level collections appear in the ROOT. I.e., we've got NI Marketing with "sub-folders" of "Articles", "Case Studies", and more, and this morning I suddenly saw ROOT folders named "Articles", "Case Studies", and others. The 2 other people I'm sharing with said they took no known action that would've caused this. I deleted the collections directly in Google Docs, and am observing closely now.

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   furashgf
   Member

   Yes, same issue exactly.

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   Andrew
   Syncdocs

   Odd, it might be related to a Google Bug we bypassed a few weeks back. We can put in more detailed checking if we understand the problem better.

   Three questions:
   1. Is it just folders that get moved out of the root or do files that were in sub-folders sometimes get moved too?
   2. If their a way to reliably repeat the behaviour?
   3. Are these shared folders?

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