Google Drive and syncing with two computers ... Files end up duplicated

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I had this problem yesterday. But on one single computer.

Basically I started synchronizing files on my computer. Then decided I didn't like where the Google Drive is located. So I stoped Google Drive, moved it to somewhere else. And copied my old files inside the new folder. The problem is it duplicated the files thinking it was different sets of files.

I will still stay with GDrive because its cheap and cool, but I hope this all will be fixed soon. Also for programming's sake, never name a folder with a space in it Google "Google Drive"!!!

Btw I used Dropbox before, I liked it but it was expensive. But my company paid for it and I stayed on Dropbox Teams. Since Dropbox just changed its Terms of Service for Dropbox Teams I decided to go Google Drive for my personal files. And paying only 2.98$ / month taxes included is cool for 30GB!

"Thanks for letting us know - duplicate file detection is on our radar as a frequently requested feature."

Seems like a fairly core "feature" that a file syncing service wouldn't duplicate the same file in the same folder.

I had to post this because I run into the same problem. And of course there is no support or some kind of warning that this problem exists and how to revert all these duplicate files.

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