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Yep, I remember a couple of years ago Google Drive started flagging 1 byte files as pirated content - shortly after I bought a 6TB hard-drive and two 5TB portable hard-drives.

My progress in getting everything off Google Drive and OneDrive has slowed due to real life but all the important stuff is backed up offline now.

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1 byte files? I guess there’s only 256 options, someone probably copyrighted them :)

I don't know if an explanation was ever given but I assume their pirated content scanning algorithm inadvertently dropped a file size check and their other checks passed.

Is there a viable alternative to the sync clients - pc/android with cloud/ghost files etc?

No idea, or at least I haven't looked into it. I just manually sync to my drives.

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