I have the Google Drive app on several devices. It is very important to me. Last year it got shut down by Google for containing " contaminated" files which were just Excel files containing hyperlinks. Although the hyperlinks were perfectly safe my drive was frozen for some length of time then I had to remove the offending files for it to work again. I deleted them and eventually Drive got back to normal but it was a huge pita.
I have an old windows tablet which has the drive all on it containing those files. It hasn't been turned on in years so it isn't a problem. I would like to use it this weekend but I'm afraid it will update and put those files back to online Google drive from Google drive folder in tablet as soon as I turn it on. This will freeze my drive and I go through the huge hastle again.
When I shut off the old tablet it definitely contained those Google forbidden Excel files in the Google drive folder. If I turn it on will drive update to current status without those files or will it put them right back when folder updates to cloud freezing me out again? What is the easiest way to ensure that doesn't happen?
recDNA said:
I have the Google Drive app on several devices. It is very important to me. Last year it got shut down by Google for containing " contaminated" files which were just Excel files containing hyperlinks. Although the hyperlinks were perfectly safe my drive was frozen for some length of time then I had to remove the offending files for it to work again. I deleted them and eventually Drive got back to normal but it was a huge pita.
I have an old windows tablet which has the drive all on it containing those files. It hasn't been turned on in years so it isn't a problem. I would like to use it this weekend but I'm afraid it will update and put those files back to online Google drive from Google drive folder in tablet as soon as I turn it on. This will freeze my drive and I go through the huge hastle again.
When I shut off the old tablet it definitely contained those Google forbidden Excel files in the Google drive folder. If I turn it on will drive update to current status without those files or will it put them right back when folder updates to cloud freezing me out again? What is the easiest way to ensure that doesn't happen?
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Boot to recovery and factory reset the device.
Or
Turn the device on in a place where there is no network to connect to, it won't update/upload/backup anything without a network connection. Use that time to turn off/disconnect all network settings/connections, then delete or uninstall whatever you need to get rid of, then reboot the device.
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I had to RMA my previous phone, so after I got my new phone I set it up. My old phone worked just fine, just the headphone jack didn't work.
However, my new phone cannot open any office files. If I go to the office app, it doesn't load any notebooks...it just says it is finding notebooks but nothing happens. It does load word and excel files though...however, I can't open up those files when I click on them. The phone downloads the file, but nothing happens afterwards. Blank screen.
Now, if I perform a soft reset and use SkyDrive, I can navigate and open up my files from there. However, if I try to open up a file using office first, fail, and then try to open up the file with SkyDrive then it will then fail.
I have tried resetting office multiple times, and renamed personal (web) , and even moved that file to another location. Still the same problem. Weirdly enough, even if I rename or move personal (web), the office app does not recreate the notebook.
Short version: Office refuses to load files and sync properly on new phone even with soft resets of phone and office.
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I had to RMA my previous phone, so after I got my new phone I set it up. My old phone worked just fine, just the headphone jack didn't work.
However, my new phone cannot open any office files. If I go to the office app, it doesn't load any notebooks...it just says it is finding notebooks but nothing happens. It does load word and excel files though...however, I can't open up those files when I click on them. The phone downloads the file, but nothing happens afterwards. Blank screen.
Now, if I perform a soft reset and use SkyDrive, I can navigate and open up my files from there. However, if I try to open up a file using office first, fail, and then try to open up the file with SkyDrive then it will then fail.
I have tried resetting office multiple times, and renamed personal (web) , and even moved that file to another location. Still the same problem. Weirdly enough, even if I rename or move personal (web), the office app does not recreate the notebook.
Short version: Office refuses to load files and sync properly on new phone even with soft resets of phone and office.
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You just need to reset Office in Configuration->Applications->Office->Reset. I had to restart the phone before it did let me to reset Office.
After that it was just simply a matter of synchronize the files.
Hi guys!
My phones display recently died and therefore cannot be used anymore. Luckyly it still connects to Google and the settings and apps are backed up, at least so I thought. But in fact, when I got my new phone, which is the same model, there was not step during initial setup to transfer data from a previous device (i can see there are available backups in GDrive however). Do you guys know how I can trigger the recovery of the data in Google Drive? It doesn't even copy my settings, nothing. In Backup & Reset Automatic restore is enabled.
I'm really desparate, I just want a working phone and setting all the apps up again is such a major hassle...
And tip or hint would be helpful, thanks!
Also: It's a Moto Z play
Usually, the offline files on my phone do not update until I manually load them, close them, and reload them. I know it is not because my phone is in sleep mode because new files from my phone still get uploaded.
About a year and a half ago, most of my Google Play apps needed to update, but I've accidentally tapped to uninstall them. The most stupid idea I could got, was to restart the phone in order to revoke that miss - since than, phone can't start normally. It always boot in the safe mode, no matter what I've tried. There's always pop-up after loading that says sth alike "there is something preventing your system to start normally. Please backup your data and do factory reset, yadyyada..." I've managed to transfer most files to PC, but I can't access 2 years worth of notes saved somewhere in Samsung Notes. According to this thread, they should be saved in \data\data\com.samsung.android.app.notes but I can't access them, since Android Studio throws error "package not debuggable". I tried using ADB backup, but that will result in 1 KB file (empty), probably because Samsung Notes has parameter allowBackup="false" in its manifest. There was some effort to rewrite it, but mostly failed, since I can't use Linux commands on Windows. There is a chance, that the data is no longer here. All packages seen in Android Studio show size of 4 KB. But when i do space analysis using the files app after loading the safe mode system, it shows to house 11 GB of system data and 12 GB of apps - which I don't have access to.
Is there any way to either crack that Samsung Notes app, or to repair that corupted system? Maybe get some log to see, whats crashing the system? Last resort solution may be rooting it?
Thanks in advance for your help. Mark
i have the a51 and when i connect it to the pc to get photos off the phone and paste them into a pc folder and open it in the file explorer i get small icons and i get the oldest photos first. when i connect my lg aristo and my oterh samsung that i do not recall teh models they open photos in file explorer with large icons and newest photos first.
so it kind of looks like i have to do some phone settings to make this happen. i tried win10 but they are telling me i need different apps etc. but my older phones do this so the a51 should do this as well. even the nokia does thes but with that phone i have to first copy all the photos into a folder first.
anyway is there a setting on the phone that tell the files to open large and new files first? the phone puts the date and a file number on the photos automatically.
also on a side note how do i stop the pc from giving me that warning triangle in the taskbar and if i click that it tells me the phone has been disconnected or stopped working. i have even use the safe to remove hardware to eject the phone and i still get that message and i do not get it for any other phones i would just unplug those old phones and be doen with it. this phone give me that message every time