Shared data file on Google Drive - change in behavior

[AC]

If you are opening Google Drive using Chrome then you are using the
Chrome web app and not the actual Windows client (hence your message
about sync offline).  You need to use the actual Windows client which
will have access to your file system for ensuring the files stay synced.
 The Chrome app does not have this ability, it can only offer the files
for upload/download.  The "offline sync" is simply the ability of the
Chrome web app to perform a bulk download to the local machine so you
can work with the files without a network connection.


The client is available here:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive/index.html


On 2014-12-08 13:35, Bob Fuller wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I believe I am using Google Drive. It shows in Control Panel as a loaded
> program on my PC. I select "Google Drive" from the Google Chrome Icon in
> the Task Bar. Opening the Google Task Manager from that icon menu shows
> "App - My Drive - Google Drive" operating.  When I look at Settings from My
> Drive I see the following, which say's it is syncing Offline. This all
> seems OK.
> [image: Inline image 1]
> I was able to download the .gnucash file from Google Drive to my PC
> desktop. I can open this with GnuCash by double-clicking the file and it
> works fine.  When I close it the .log files are created in the desktop
> folder I put the file in.  Of course, I cannot open with double-click on
> Google Drive. It wants a Google application to be used.
> 
> So, the problem is still my inability to find the shared My Drive file
> using the GnuCash program Open File menu. In trying again I noticed that
> even though I and my son had saved the files as XML, that does not show as
> a possible Data Format when I try to find and open the latest .gnucash
> file.  I it defaults to "file" data format.  The only other options in the
> drop-down are "mysql" and "postgres".  But, the same is true for the file I
> can open successfully from the Desktop folder.
> 
> I'm uploading the files I'm successful with to my Cox Cloud Drive.  Maybe
> that is a simpler place to share.
> 
> Thanks, again,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Bob Fuller <bobfuller.pilgrim at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, I see the same files I see from Open File in GnuCash.  All the .log
>> files are there but none of the updated .gnucash files.  I can Open With
>> Gnucash from the most recent .gnucash file showing and I see the same thing
>> as before... nothing updated since the 5th.
>>>
>>> How did I get the PC Windows Explorer out of sync with Google Drive? I
>> had tested to ensure I was signed in on Google and I am.  I'm guessing you
>> are on the right track.
>>
>> Google Drive maintains a directory on your PC and has a program that
>> manages synchronization. You need to run that program in order to sync with
>> the Google Drive service. Simply signing in with your browser isn’t
>> sufficient. When the program is running it will try to maintain sync; if it
>> can’t you can view errors by clicking on the Google Drive icon in the
>> system tray.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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