Backing up your data is a wise option, you don’t know when an unknown error will occur, and you won’t have access to your data. Officially Microsoft provides its own cloud storage service called One Drive with windows. However, there are other great services like Google Drive and Dropbox. Google Drive is a similar cloud backup service like One Drive. People often choose Google Drive instead of One Drive just because of its flexibility and popularity. However, Google Drive is developed by Google, not by Microsoft; therefore, it has a few bugs on Windows. Such as a common bug whee Google Drive not syncing with Windows computer.
People are reporting that they were unable to sync their files and folder in Google Drive. The syncing issue can be caused due to the Windows firewall or Antivirus software. They can be in conflict with Google Drive thinking of a malicious application. Hence, causing the syncing issue. However, it is also possible that it is due to bad installation, internet connection, administrative privileges, or version compatibility. Whatever the reason is, you can try a few solutions mentioned below, to fix the google Drive syncing issue.
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How To Fix If Google Drive Not Syncing on Windows 10 PC or Laptop?
Method 1: Restart Google Drive or your Pc
If you have noticed that the folders and files aren’t syncing with google Drive properly, then the first thing you can do to fix the issue is to restart your Google Drive services. Therefore, You can go to your Windows Search bar and tye Task manager, or you can press Ctrl+Shift+Esc on your keyboard to open task manager. Now on the go to the process tab and search for Google Drive. Select it and click on end task. Go to the services tab, scroll down, and find services related to google, select it, and stop the services. Now Launch Google Drive again and see if the error has been fixed. If this doesn’t work, then restart your Pc, it will clear up the CPU, RAM, so if any file was malfunctioning it will be taken down. After reboot launch, Google Drive again and see if the error has been resolved.
Method 2: Signing in using Browser or Taskbar Access
Accessing Google Drive using Windows Files Explorer is troublesome. For a bug, people assume that they have logged in, while they were just looking at the local copy of google Drive stored on their computer. If you haven’t got any prompt to login, then you can log in using the taskbar icon or y using the browser.
