using Google Drive for desktop

Some points for using Google Drive for desktop - may be easier to use than rclone for some users, but the following can be potential stumbling blocks:

• By default, C:\Users\yourusername\Appdata\Local\Google\DriveFS is used as a temp file location - this can cause problems when trying to "stream" large files with C: drive running out of disk space.
  
  
• To change this setting - and to change from "streaming" to "mirroring" and so on, we need to right-click on the taskbar icon (which is usually hidden by default, so we have to click on the up-arrow to show this icon first) --> the Gear icon --> Preferences then again click on the Gear icon in the window which comes up. A bit clunky.
  
  
• This is the interface now (November 2022), but may change in the future.
  
  
• Edit: Google Drive for Desktop does not work very well with very large files. rclone is better in such cases. For example, see my next post.