Just a PSA post here. I recently passed 1.26 MILLION files in my google drive account. Only ~400,000 of these files were from CloudDrive, but I use lots of other apps that write lots of files to my account and thought I would pass on this info.
1) Google Drive for Windows client will crash, even if you only have 1 folder synced to your desktop: I have only a few docs folders actually synced to my desktop client, but the app insists on downloading an entire index of all of your files on your account into memory, before writing it to disk, when this crosses 2.1GB of RAM, as it did for me after 1.26 million files, the app will crash (due to Google Drive for Windows still stupidly being 32-bit). No workaround other than lowering your number of files on your account.
2) Google Drive API documentation warns of API breakdowns as you cross 1 million files on your account, query sorting can cease to function, etc, who knows which apps depend on API calls that could start to fail.
I've spent the last 10 days running a python script I wrote to delete un wanted/needed files, one by one. 10 days, and I probably have 10 days left. I hope to get to ~600,000 total by the time I am done.
Question
modplan
Just a PSA post here. I recently passed 1.26 MILLION files in my google drive account. Only ~400,000 of these files were from CloudDrive, but I use lots of other apps that write lots of files to my account and thought I would pass on this info.
1) Google Drive for Windows client will crash, even if you only have 1 folder synced to your desktop: I have only a few docs folders actually synced to my desktop client, but the app insists on downloading an entire index of all of your files on your account into memory, before writing it to disk, when this crosses 2.1GB of RAM, as it did for me after 1.26 million files, the app will crash (due to Google Drive for Windows still stupidly being 32-bit). No workaround other than lowering your number of files on your account.
2) Google Drive API documentation warns of API breakdowns as you cross 1 million files on your account, query sorting can cease to function, etc, who knows which apps depend on API calls that could start to fail.
I've spent the last 10 days running a python script I wrote to delete un wanted/needed files, one by one. 10 days, and I probably have 10 days left. I hope to get to ~600,000 total by the time I am done.
Hope this helps someone in the future.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
11 answers to this question
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.