Approach to restarting Google Drive periodically under Windows
I run GoogleDrive on an unatteded Windows 7 machine. Periodically I have to restart Google Drive as GD gets itself into a state where it stops syncing. Restarted GD fixes the issue.
Has anyone got a BAT file or similair approach that I can schedule to do the restart of GD so I don't have to do it manually?
52 Answers
If you want it to automatically run periodically, just use Task Scheduler (search for it in the Start Menu) to run a batch script.
The batch script should contain:
taskkill /f /im googledrivesync.exe
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 2000 > nul
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe"
exit
The ping command is there just to add a delay between killing and restarting googledrivesync.exe
Task CMD : C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wscript.exe EXEC_HIDEN_CMD_GOOGLE_SYNC.vbs
Text for file named EXEC_HIDEN_CMD_GOOGLE_SYNC.vbs :
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run ".\RestartGoogleSync.bat",0,True
Text for file named RestartGoogleSync.bat :
taskkill /f /im googledrivesync.exe
timeout 5 >> nul
start "" "C:\Program Files\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe"
exit
Put All in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 folder.
