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TL;DR: run the command in your Terminal to remove your Drive File Stream cache:

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions. Oct 03, 2020 You can find your DriveFS cache path by going to Drive File Stream Settings (gear icon) Preferences. Local cached files directory. By default, the cache directory should be /Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS. To delete the DriveFS cache directory using Terminal: rm -rf /Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS/. In the Go dropdown locate Library. If Library folder is not available in the Go dropdown menu, hold down the Alt key on your Mac keyboard and it will appear. Click it, next click on the Application Support folder, then click on Google folder. Finally click on DriveFS folder. This is the Google Drive File Stream folder. I went to the Finder folder Library - Application Support - Google. I renamed the folder DriveFS to DriveFS.old. Use Drive File Stream to access all your. and enter this, exactly: /Library/Application Support/Google/ and delete the DriveFS folder entirely. Install the Drive FS app and log in. Reinstalling didn't fix the issue, so after six email exchanges with Google support where each time I am told I need to send more info (yet it's info they already have such as timestamps, logs, etc).

WARNING: If files are pending upload to Drive, deleting the cache may cause the files to be lost (see comment).

Background

I installed the Google Drive desktop app in order to sync files between my computer and the cloud.

I found that you could right-click a file, hover over Drive File Stream, and select an option:

• Available offline
• Online only (default)

But even when Online only is selected, large files still persist on my computer.

Clear cache directory

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To remove all files from your computer cache, you can delete the Drive File Stream cache.

You can find your DriveFS cache path by going to Drive File Stream > Settings (gear icon) > Preferences... > Local cached files directory.

By default, the cache directory should be ~/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS.

To delete the DriveFS cache directory using Terminal:

WARNING: If files are pending upload to Drive, deleting the cache may cause the files to be lost (see comment).

The side-effect of this is that it also deletes your credentials so you’ll need to login again.

Clear cache content directory

To clear cache without deleting credentials, you can delete just the cache content directory:

WARNING: If files are pending upload to Drive, deleting the cache may cause the files to be lost (see comment).

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What the command above is doing is deleting the numeric directory from DriveFS:

Note: The numeric folder name may change from machine to machine.

How To Resolve Google Drive File Stream Not Working On A Mac ...

After deleting this directory, cached files can no longer be opened. In order to open the Drive File Stream files again, you’ll need to quit and restart the desktop app and sync the files.

Resources

Deploy Google Drive For Desktop - Google Workspace Admin Help

See Uninstall Drive File Stream > Step 3: Clear files cached on your computer.