HeadInTheClouds

OK, I thought this was a Dropbox problem but I switched to Google Drive and the exact same thing happens. During a long upload (300 GB to GD), upload speed drops to nothing, the usual message about having trouble uploading appears (although I can use Google Drive perfectly normally in a browser, etc.) and, what's even weirder, the cloud usage starts shrinking. So on this roughly 284 GB upload, local usage is 8.3 GB and cloud usage is 228 GB. So, er where has the other 50-odd GB gone? I'm starting to think I should be using provider tools now, it seems CloudDrive just does not play well with these providers any more? Thx, Ed

I know it's 2 years too late but I had a similar resize take 6 hours for 800 GB to 500 GB. No idea why but I am starting to run into a lot of problems with CloudDrive recently and, while I thought it was the providers, I think it is actually the software.

I've been toying with moving away from the big G for a while but after a dire experience with e.g. Dropbox (seems chunked large file uploads are not what Dropbox is about...) I'm back to Google Drive and it is working more or less as it has always done -- sometimes there is a bit of a wait but it has never caused me any really serious problems. So is anyone working with the other providers CD supports and happy with them? (I have to also praise StableBit for a recent backup + restore to a new PC, which I managed off of a local Synology box mounted as a file share using CloudDrive. Worked like a dream, I was up and running inside 24 hours after restoring 300 GB of backups.) Cheers, Ed

I've resized a 800 GB drive down to 500 GB and it works fine, I can access it in Windows and move things around, copy, delete, etc. But StableBit is still "Cleaning up..." and the size reported for cloud usage is well over 500 GB still. Just leave it to do whatever it is doing? Or what could be the issue here?

Hi Folks, I have some long uploads that take a day or so to complete. Normally, Windows will sleep after my set time (e.g. 30 minutes) and everything then stops, so my upload starts again only when I use the PC again. This is not ideal. At the moment, I'm using a utility called "Coffee_FF" to stop Windows sleeping if network traffic is higher than a threshold. Is there a better way? Could this feature not be added to CloudDrive? It would be really useful. Cheers, Ed

Thanks Christopher for this reply and your support, all fine so far now - M.2 will be ordered in the near future for much faster, unlocked, caching :=)

Hi Folks, Just installed CloudDrive and it worked a treat uploading about 280 GB of a Macrium backup to Google Drive. Also updated an incremental file of around 25 GB today on a second run of the backup. However, I then shut down the PC since I was working somewhere else and when I restarted I had a note about an unsafe shutdown and that CloudDrive was now going to re-upload the cache. The only thing that could perhaps be causing a problem is the fact that the cache is currently located on a disk that is, directly following a boot, encrypted with BitLocker. I typically unlock this disk manually after booting. Could this cause CloudDrive to encounter a problem since it can't access the cache directory immediately after boot? If this is probably the problem, then it's no biggie since I'm installing a new disk anyway for caching and this will not be locked (since the backups are all encrypted anyway). But I thought I'd check. Looking fwd to your reply, the software itself seems to work incredibly well otherwise. One more thing: after I clear the messages in the app (shown as pop-up messages at top left), where can I find these messages again - are they logged anywhere? Cheers, Ed