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Thank you! I'd also like to report back on some things I've tried over the last few days, and I can gladly say that my issues were/are likely due to poor usage on my part. I'm now at a spot where my download speed is between double and triple of what it was before and the rate limiting is virtually non existent with the download threads set at 20 (Prefetch forward = 20MB and Prefetch time = 120 seconds). 1. I was able to find various folders that ultimately had a bunch of smaller files (few thousand combined) which I've now downloaded and deleted from the drive. 2. I ran the cleanup option on the drive (Drive Options -> Cleanup). Whenever you get a chance, would it be possible to provide insight on the role this plays and whether there are any recommendations on how often it should be used (probably dependent on drive size and usage?)? My guess is that this won't be limited to GD so hopefully one or both of the things I did will also help others at some point.

Out of curiosity, is there any hope of Google increasing the call limit to a realistic value and/or any rough timeline of the "rewrite"? The Amazon rate limit forced me to look into rclone for Amazon backup and now that I want to mirror some stuff from Google Drive to Amazon, I'm seeing how unstable the GD downloading is. When I uploaded everything to GD, the speeds were fantastic (300-500 Mbps) but now when I try to download this same data from the same server, it generally hovers around 50 Mbps regardless of the version, settings, or server location. I'm also getting throttling notifications almost constantly with only 10 download threads. I'd love for Stablebit to be my permanent solution, and I've already purchased the full suite and a couple additional Cloud Drive licenses so I'm clearly in love with the products, I'm just hoping to get some encouraging news about the one thing making it unusable for me, the rate limiting (especially with GD which seems to have been fine until recently).