Moving large folder within Google Drive odrive folder re-uploads the whole thing

Troubleshooting
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I have the original folder structure where each cloud connection is its own folder. This happened in Google Drive.

I just moved FolderFoo from Google Drive/Folder1/ to Google Drive/Folder2/. Upon moving it, odrive started uploading the entire folder all over again, then marked the original as being in the Trash. It’s a 10GB folder so it’ll take a while to reupload.

Shouldn’t this have just done a move on the cloud? I have seen this behavior in the past, I’m curious if anyone else has.

odrive version 7450
macOS Sequoia 15.2
APFS formatted drive

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Hi @nabeards,
Optimized moves are the one soft-spot for the sync engine. Since it is observing filesystem states, it can’t always see the two different actions (disappear from one location and appear in another location) and correlate them as an optimized move. When it doesn’t it will pick it up as an add + delete.

Ideally it will recognize the actions as a single “move”.

Apologies for the extra overhead here.

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Thanks @Tony ! For macOS specifically, seems like fsevents would give the proper notification for a folder being moved vs removed. With slow and limited internet, it took 100 minutes for the resync to finish :confused: