To see if Backup and Sync has recognized a new file. If nothing is logged in response to file and folder changes, the software may be dead. To verify that Backup and Sync is doing anything at all. Nevertheless, we have found file useful in a couple of scenarios: The purpose of the file is to help Google’s engineers diagnose defects - not to give the rest of us a friendly view of file synchronization. You can find the file in your AppData folder:Ĭ:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Drive\user_default\sync_log.logīe warned: the content is very technical!
Dig into the local synchronization log fileīackup and Sync tracks its activities in a text file. Those documents have not been uploaded to the cloud. Watch out for new (or updated) files on your PC’s hard drive that are don’t show up in the activity stream.
