It says ‘The Google Drive folder you selected is not empty. Please select an empty folder or empty this one’ when I try to map Google Drive to previous folder I’ve have associated with.
It means we’ll need to create a new folder and sync/download all of files again. And what happen if we have Gigs or thousands of files, this should be a big problem.
The Google Drive folder you selected is not empty
This tutorial will solve this problem with a few advance steps required with command prompt.
1. Completely quit Google Drive, right-click Google Drive icon on the tray and click Quit Google Drive
Completely quit Google Drive
2. Open the command prompt, click Start and type cmd in the search box
Open the command prompt
3. Run the following command on the commmand prompt, the googledrivesync.exe executable file should be located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive
googledrivesync.exe --enable_snapshot_reconstruct |
Run googledrivesync on the commmand prompt
4. Now we can start Google Drive setting up as normal. Let’s sign in to Google Drive
Sign in to Google Drive
5. Click Next to go to step 2
Google Drive Welcome Step 1
6. Click Next to go to step 3
Google Drive Welcome Step 2
7. Click Next to go to step 4
Google Drive Welcome Step 3
8. Click Advanced setup button on step 4
Google Drive Advanced setup
9. Choose a folder where Google Drive will sync files to; it could be the previous folder you’ve choosed before.
Choose a folder where Google Drive will sync files
10. After that, click Start sync
Google Drive Start sync
11. Right-click again on the Google Drive icon, we now can see status is comparing files instead of syncing. It just takes a few minutes to complete.
Google Drive Comparing Files
