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Home Tips And Tricks Setup Google Drive On The Existing Folder

Setup Google Drive On The Existing Folder

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

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

Completely quit Google Drive

2. Open the command prompt, click Start and type cmd in the search box

Open the command prompt

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

googledrivesync.exe --enable_snapshot_reconstruct

Run googledrivesync on the commmand prompt

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

Sign in to Google Drive

5. Click Next to go to step 2

Google Drive Welcome Step 1

Google Drive Welcome Step 1

6. Click Next to go to step 3

Google Drive Welcome Step 2

Google Drive Welcome Step 2

7. Click Next to go to step 4

Google Drive Welcome Step 3

Google Drive Welcome Step 3

8. Click Advanced setup button on step 4

Google Drive Advanced setup

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

Choose a folder where Google Drive will sync files

10. After that, click Start sync

Google Drive 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

Google Drive Comparing Files

Sep 30, 2014Hoan Huynh
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Hoan Huynh

Hoan Huynh is the founder and head of 4rapiddev.com. Reach him at [email protected]

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