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I have the following issue:

I only need to sync some folders from google-drive to one of PC: Screenshot of my env But there is a problem if I create any files(exactly files, not folders) in the root of google-drive they will be sync on this PC: enter image description here

Is there a way to prevent this behavior?

Searching in settings and the Internet didn't get any useful results.

I've found only this forum, but there was just reported the same behavior.

I understand, that I can keep all files in folders and didn't get messy the root of drive, but this behavior with sync settings was at least not obvious.

Dave M
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No there is not, as it says right there in your screenshots: "Files in Google Drive that are not in a folder will always sync."

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Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
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  • But how to even find files "not in a folder"? There is no way to search for them in Google Drive! – pete Jan 23 '20 at 07:35
  • @pete To find them you'd look at the root of your Google Drive. Anything that's not in a sub-folder of your Google Drive folder is consider to be "not in a folder". – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Jan 23 '20 at 18:09
  • Thanks, but I see literally nothing in there at all (and I made sure I was on the right account); I only see folders, no top-level files. Yet, when de-selecting every single checkbox in Backup And Sync, it claimed I had 70 GB selected! Then when trying to actually sync to debug exactly what "files" it thinks I have, it just gets stuck forever "Preparing" hundreds of thousands of files! A quick internet search shows many people having the same problem – pete Jan 23 '20 at 19:19