Force initial Google Drive sync with a non-empty folder?

Posted by Terrance Shaw on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Terrance Shaw
Published on 2012-09-08T03:21:54Z Indexed on 2012/09/08 3:40 UTC
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I upgraded my iMac with an SSD last night and restored from a Time Capsule backup. Everything is now working substantially zippier and overall better, with the exception of one thing: Google Drive refuses to continue to sync with the Google Drive folder that it'd been using before the upgrade, and I ultimately ended up having to just delete the folder and let it resync from scratch to get past its stubborn error (alternatively, I suppose I could've simply moved the contents, set the path to the now-empty folder, then moved them back).

Is there any way to get past this particular issue (for future reference), or is it something that Google put in place to ensure that a new user doesn't go and specify their root drive as the backup destination?

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