Google Drive Issue

Gulp... do you have a backup or 2?

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.

Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this...

Open System Preferences>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account.

Does it work in the new account?

That's great. Looking at the drive_fs txt files in the Application Support > Google> DriveFS > Logs folder, I see problems including "Error making temporary directory : 1" followed by "Memory allocation failure" while trying to launch GD for Desktop. Based on a quick web search, this thread may be useful https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2373

If you click on the GD icon in the menu bar, you can pull down a GD menu. Click on the "cog" icon and there is an option to "Send Feedback". If enough people that are affected do this, maybe Google will do something. Of course, that might well be "Ask Apple, it's not our problem..."

After a recent update with a Mojave security update, my MP5,1 is now having an identical issue - GD stops running within a second or so after sign-in via a browser. I tried making a new user account with admin privileges, but same result. I tried safe boot, but same issue. This is REALLY frustrating as I have so many files on GD. The annoying thing is I can still access them (albeit somewhat clumsily) via GD on a browser.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Is that the Backup and Sync for Mac App?

Downloaded it on 10.13.6 & it doesn't run.

No, GD for Desktop.

Hmmm, can't get that to run either, says I'm not configured yet & quits.

Well, didn't recognize the menubar icon or it took awhile to show up, but apparently it's working, says it uploaded 6 files in my test folder, I do not see GD in Finder though.

Good find methinks, keep us posted!