Odrive stopped working catalina OSX

[Tony]

Hi @edward,
This command doesn’t actually touch the odrive data folder. I’ll walk through what it does so there is no confusion.

killall -KILL odrive; killall -KILL FinderSyncExtension; sleep 5; cd "$HOME"; rm -r ".odrive/bin"; rm ".odrive/version"; open "/Applications/odrive.app"

• killall -KILL odrive; - This kills any running odrive processes. This probably won’t do anything because the problem we are trying to solve is that odrive doesn’t run, but it is there, just in case.
• killall -KILL FinderSyncExtension; - This kills any FinderSyncExtension processes, which is the odrive Finder extension.
• sleep 5; - Wait for 5 seconds before continuing
• cd "$HOME"; - Change to the user’s home folder.
• rm -r ".odrive/bin"; - remove the ~/.odrive/bin folder. This folder contains the odrive binary executables (not to be confused with the ~/odrive folder)
• rm ".odrive/version"; - remove the odrive version file in the ~/.odrive/ folder (again, not to be confused with the ~/odrive folder). This is used internally for installs and upgrades.
• open "/Applications/odrive.app" - This opens the odrive application, which should now replace the problem files we removed in the previous commands.

The outcome of this command is that it will replace the odrive executable binaries. This will leave all of the odrive data folders and the odrive local databases untouched, so you should not have any impact to your files, in any way.

There is another command to uninstall odrive. In that command the odrive data folder is renamed to a backup name. If you are not aware of this rename it can look like the odrive folder was deleted. Here is more specific information on that command:

How do I uninstall odrive?

Windows : Exit odrive Uninstall odrive using the standard windows uninstall method (add/remove programs). The default odrive folder will be renamed to odrive_backup_[current date and time] as a backup. MacOS: Please follow the steps outlined below: Exit odrive. Open a terminal session (type “terminal” in Spotlight search): [image] Run the following command in the terminal session (copy & paste the entire thing into terminal and hit the Enter key): cd "$HOME" && rm -r ".odrive"…

Is it possible that you ran the uninstall command and the odrive folder was renamed?

I always make sure to take extreme care when posting any command line snippets to ensure that no user data will be deleted. It is something I am hyper-sensitive about.