Google Drive: During start up and sync it is randomly deleting files to trash

Does anyone know of a fix? Everytime I try to sync google drive it is deleting files. They are in my trash folder but I'm afraid I will have to manually drag them back to each folder. Ive tried to restart, still happening, Thanks

MacBook Pro 13", OS X 10.11

Posted on Jul 6, 2019 6:43 AM

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Eric Root

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Jul 7, 2019 8:40 AM in response to albertz

Google Drive Support

Jul 6, 2019 7:16 AM in response to albertz

Google Drive is not an Apple product. Maybe a good question for the Google Drive forum or Google Drive Support.

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