Re Insync, some people may find this useful.

This is a corner case and I’m really happy with Insync otherwise.

It caused me some issues with photos.

It is absolutely great most of the time but … If you re-install your machine, in theory you can install Insync on your new distro and then point it at your previous sync folder (rather than re-download everything from Google Drive) .

This works for the most part, but it ate all of my photos that had duplicate names (that old chestnut). It normally handles duplicate names in a folder by adding ‘(n)’ to duplicates but if you do the re-install thing it ends up deleting all but one of the files. I lost about 1500 of my 90000 images.

Unfortunately that deleted the copies in my Google Photos library due to Google Drive integration. I was able to restore the photos from offline backup to drive but only realized months later that they were gone from Photos. There is no easy way to work out which are missing and restore them (but I’m currently adding a feature to gphotos-sync to provide this).

<3 Thanks so much for the love. We just released 1.4 earlier this year with a huge improvement to our UI + Teams license (for Team Drives syncing) 🙂

Bon voyage 🙂

OK, just tried this and it beats Google’s own sync. Not free, but a reasonable one off license fee.

I shall be dropping further development of my gphotos-sync :-).

Really? Where have you been looking? I’ve been syncing my Drive and Photos for at least 6-7 years.