Hi @fwsawyer,
This is definitely not normal behavior.
I expect that there is something happening that is causing this. Is your computer running normally otherwise? Has it had any sudden power outages, or experienced any errors? My first thought would be a hard drive malfunction.
In any case, let’s try these steps to see if we can get things back on track:
- Uninstall odrive - This will remove the cache and rename your odrive folder to an odrive backup folder
- Reinstall odrive
- Go through the odrive setup process and log back in. Make sure you are logging in with the exact same odrive account as before.
- Once odrive fully initializes the go to the new odrive folder, which should now have all placeholder (.cloudf) files. The cache has now been reset.
- Now, go to the backup odrive folder that was created during uninstall (odrive_backup-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM) and move all of the folders inside that backup folder into the new odrive folder. These will end up replacing the .cloudf files in there (odrive will remove them when it sees that the “real” folders are now present).
At this point odrive will run through the folders and make sure everything is synced. Let it run (it may take a while) and it should eventually bring everything back in sync. After that we will have to monitor things to see if the problem happens again.