{"id":602,"date":"2016-01-27T03:55:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:25:48","slug":"google-drive-isnt-syncing-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/google-drive-isnt-syncing-properly","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive isn\u2019t syncing properly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Drive is a cloud storage facility which allows users to store their invaluable files in the Cloud. Google Drive doesn\u2019t comes as an in-built application with Windows 10, rather users have to download it from the official Google Drive website. For a quick troubleshooting of sync error, use ST Cleaner.<\/p>\n

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Google Drive helps users access their data from the cloud via their desktop, laptop or even a mobile phone. This makes Google Drive an indispensable software program to have. However, just like any other software, Google Drive also encounters errors sometimes. One of the most important of them is the \u201cnot syncing\u201d problem. This article helps users how to go around this error.<\/p>\n

Symptoms<\/b><\/h2>\n
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  1. Local storage files don\u2019t sync properly with the cloud storage<\/li>\n
  2. Files won\u2019t upload to the cloud storage from the user\u2019s system<\/li>\n
  3. Uploading or Downloading is stuck indefinitely<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Solution 1:\u00a0<\/b>Restart Google Drive<\/b><\/h2>\n
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    1. Search for the Google Drive Icon in the notification area on your\u00a0Taskbar.<\/li>\n
    2. Right-click on it and then click on the \u201cQuit Google Drive\u201d button.
      \n\"Quit-Google-Drive\"<\/li>\n
    3. Open the Windows Start menu.<\/li>\n
    4. Type \u201cGoogle Drive\u201d (without any quotations) and open Google Drive from the search results.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"Googel-Drive-Search-Result\"<\/a><\/p>\n

      Solution 2:\u00a0<\/b>Update Windows<\/b><\/h2>\n

      Windows usually updates itself automatically, but if the user is accessing the internet through a WiFi or if the user is behind a firewall, it has to be initiated manually from the Windows Update window.<\/p>\n

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      1. Open the Start menu.
        \n\"Check-for-Updates\"<\/li>\n
      2. Type \u201cWindows Update\u201d without quotation marks to search for Windows Update.<\/li>\n
      3. Click on the shown application to open the Windows Update window.<\/li>\n
      4. Click the \u201cCheck for Updates\u201d button to initiate the update.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \"Check-for-Updates-Button\"<\/a><\/p>\n

        Solution 3<\/b><\/h2>\n

        Google Drive has a file size limit for every file type. If it is a Document (.doc), it has to be less than 50MB. And in the case of a Presentation (.ppt), the maximum size of a file can be 100MB. A Spreadsheet is also permitted to go as bigger as 2 million cells only. Google doesn\u2019t specify an exact value of the maximum limit for other file types. Users can get as much as 30TB, however, any storage space in excess of 15GB is only available for a monthly subscription fee.<\/p>\n

        Solution 4<\/b><\/h2>\n

        Make sure you are connected to the Internet. Here are a few steps to help you with troubleshooting the internet connectivity issue.<\/p>\n

        Reset the Router. (Every router has a different method to reset it, so please search for your router model and brand on the web to find how to reset it).
        \nMake sure the Windows Firewall settings allow file transferring. If you have installed a third-party Firewall, reinstalling it might fix any bugs that are causing the internet connectivity problem. Follow the following steps if you have Windows Firewall.<\/p>\n

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        1. Click on the Start button to open the start menu.<\/li>\n
        2. Search \u201cWindows Firewall\u201d to locate it.<\/li>\n
        3. Open it from the Search Results.<\/li>\n
        4. Find the \u201cAction\u201d group in the Firewall.<\/li>\n
        5. Click on the \u201cRestore Default Policy\u201d to reset the Windows Firewall.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \"Windows-Firewall-Options\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Google Drive is a cloud storage facility which allows users to store their invaluable files in the Cloud. Google Drive doesn\u2019t comes as an in-built application with Windows 10, rather users have to download it from the official Google Drive website. For a quick troubleshooting of sync error, use ST Cleaner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[375,373,374,376],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-google-drive-sync-error","tag-google-drive-sync-issue","tag-google-drive-sync-problem","tag-sync-error-google-drive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}