Troubleshooting - astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse GitHub Wiki

This application is still under testing, so there are probably bugs to discover and fix. To be extra sure, if you want, you can mount the filesystem in read-only mode, modifying the configuration (see the documentation), to avoid any write attempt to the server. Anyway, the rm command will simply trash your file, so you should always be able to rollback any changes.

If you have problems, you can turn on debug logging:

$ google-drive-ocamlfuse -debug mountpoint

In ~/.gdfuse/default you can find curl.log that will track every request to the Google Drive API, and gdfuse.log that will log FUSE operations and cache management.

The process is always kept in foreground. The -debug option enables debug and verbose logging, so it is easier to see why startup or filesystem operations fail.

If something goes wrong, you can try clearing the cache, with this command:

$ google-drive-ocamlfuse -cc

If something still doesn't work, try starting from scratch removing everything in ~/.gdfuse/default. In this case you will need to reauthorize the application.

Note that in order to reduce latency, the application will query the server and check for changes only every 60 seconds (configurable). So, if you make a change to your documents (server side), you won't see it immediately in the mounted filesystem.