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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Those instructions sound like they are aimed at preserving whatever possible file cache would exist on your computer.
The description of this being a "sync" issue doesn't really make a ton of sense, since no matter what, the Drive web interface should show all your files and let you download them.
One is the traditional "mirroring" mode that works like Dropbox, where files on your hard drive get uploaded to the cloud, downloaded to all your other devices, and stay on your computer.
You're expected to have an always-on Internet connection and, when you try to open a cloud file link, the actual data is quickly streamed to your device so applications can access it.
Besides whatever this issue ends up being, Google has also tried to cut Drive costs this year by rolling out a hard cap on file count (in addition to the usual byte size limit), which was later reversed after it got press coverage.
Google enacted this file limit as a total surprise and didn't talk about it for months, which left some businesses with broken setups scrambling to try to figure out what was happening.
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