Hi @coramdeojoy777,
Thanks for the additional information!
I think I understand the scenario here.
You’ve used the Google Drive client to backup your Pictures, Documents, and Desktop folders and now you want to free up that space on your local disk, correct?
You can do this with odrive, using “sync to odrive” (Manage Sync):
This can be done by:
- Right-clicking on each of the Pictures, Documents, and Desktop folders and choosing “sync to odrive”.
- Then choose where you want to sync these folders to on the remote side
- Google doesn’t offer a way to target the “Computers” section of storage that they use with their client, so you would need to sync these folders again to a new location in your Drive, unfortunately. (I am actually currently investigating a way to work around this).
- Once odrive is done syncing the folder, you can use the “unsync” feature to unsync the items and free up the local disk space. (Here is a video about that, for more information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S6KM6eiglU
Just let me know if you have any questions about the above steps.
It is possible that the Google Drive client is interfering with the odrive Finder extensions. Can you go to your Mac System Preferences->Extensions and make sure the odriveapp Finder extension is enabled (checked)? If it is, try toggling it off and on again and see if the extensions return. If that doesn’t fix it, try disabling (unchecking) all other extensions except odrive and seeing if that changes anything (it may require a restart of the system to take effect).