Can't find files stored with GSuite

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Enable Explorer in Vista, Windows 7 and later to see, edit and search on tags and other metadata for any file type

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Can't find files stored with GSuite #63

Open randy125 opened 5 years ago

randy125 commented 5 years ago

2019-07-07_12-06-51.pdf I use GSuite - Google Filestream which stores files in the cloud but they show up on my computer as a being located in G: When I try and update a tag etc it an error pops up that says that it can't find the file. See attached image. I have tried adding tags to a file on my laptop and it seems to work fine. Is there potentially a fix for this that could be included in the next release?

Dijji commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately not. File Meta stores meta data in an alternate stream attached to a file using a mechanism that is supported by NTFS.

Although GSuite presents what looks like a disk, it obviously does not support alternate streams, and so File Meta cannot write any property values. Google is not alone in this, similar problems occur with many other non-NTFS network drives.

Dijji