Similarly, when opening my catalogue with Adobe Lightroom, an error message occurs.Īnd, when I try to open one of the corrupted MS Word files, this message appears (“Word found unreadable content in “FileName”. … and with PDF-XChange Editor (“ Can’t open the document Error : Required value not found“).Īs before, I can still access the file through Google File Stream’s web interface: … Foxit Reader (“ Format error: Not a PDF or corrupted“) … The file is damaged and could not be repaired“) … I tested it with Adobe Reader (“ There was an error opening this document. ![]() When I try to open one of the corrupted PDF files… the file that has all information (ratings, metadata, …) about all the photos that I took in the past 15 years. And, even worse, it is not only PDF files but some MS Word documents are corrupt as well as my Adobe Lightroom catalogue (. Today, I just realized that a large number of PDF files is corrupted in Google Drive (not all though). However, continuing to use Google File Stream was a mistake. Given that it was only a single file where this problem occurred, I ignored this problem and continued to work with Google File Stream. I even had a Skype call with some support staff from Google but he neither couldn’t find a solution. Also, all collaborators who had access to the same file, couldn’t open it locally. I renamed the file, stored it in a different GDrive folder, cleared the cache, made it available offline, … I tried everything, but nothing helped (except storing the file outside of GDrive, removing a few rows in the Excel sheet, saving the file, and moving it back to GDrive). Once I stored/copied/moved the file to Google File Stream’s Desktop client, the file was corrupted again. xls file, and open it locally – as long as I wouldn’t store it again in Google Drive. I could still access the file online in Google File Stream’s web interface. Interestingly, and luckily, the file was corrupted only on my local computer. … but Excel displayed the message “The file is corrupt and cannot be opened”. On that day, I wanted to open an Excel file (.xls)… I used the Windows client to keep my local files in sync with the cloud, in the same way as e.g. One year ago, Google File Stream’s Windows client corrupted a file for the first time. My research group is using Google File Stream for about 2 years, and since then I had to learn that Google File Stream has one really serious and two annoying bugs. ![]() ![]() I am not usually writing in this blog about my experience with software, but today I make an exception to prevent others from making the same bad experience that I had with Google File Stream, the enterprise version of Google Drive / GDrive.
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