Question Will a 4 month old PC backup delete new items in Google Drive, or will Google Drive update the 4 month old Google Drive sync copy on my PC?

[Pentacore]

Sorry for the long title. I can't seem to find a clear answer to this question. My OS drive died on me, and on it I had Google Drive for desktop installed that was in constant sync with my Google Drive online.

I restored a 4 month old backup to a new drive and have it booted up, but I'm scared to connect it to the internet until I know which copy will overwrite which. My fear is if I connect my PC to the internet, it will sync with the Google Drive copy on my PC that is 4 months old, and delete any new files in my Google Drive.

Or will Google Drive for Desktop pull down all the new files from the past 4 months from my Google Drive to bring my PC up to date?

Sorry if I didn't word that concisely but hopefully my question is understandable. One thought I had is just to be safe, I could completely remove and delete the Google Drive for Desktop and all my Google Drive contents on the PC, then once connected redo a sync.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Chiefcrowe]

If you want to be certain you may want to ask google about it (if they will actually answer questions that is...)

To me I believe it will sync to the latest version of the file to keep all of the older files up to date.

As you said, if you want to be safe you could just remove it and delete the folder and then when you sync again it will pull back everything from the cloud to be current.

 

[tcsenter]

Doesn't One Drive have a go-back or restore feature? i.e. keeps a backup or shadow copy of whatever is on your One Drive account, that you could restore within a limited period of time after changes/modifications, whether indvidual files or entire contents?

 

[Pentacore]

Thanks for the replies. I ended up just playing it safe and uninstalling Google Desktop sync and deleting the entire Google Drive folder. Now I don't have to worry and can just re-sync on the new drive.