Notes on hosting google drive sync on windows machine on an external drive, rather than the windows host.

three supposed methods.  Already tried to set the host drive to other than the main host, with no success.

main system is laptop, with 2gb drive.  google drive is 3tb $10 / month.  Will be going to 5gb soon, so want to host all files locally on an external 5gb drive.

https://www.cbackup.com/articles/sync-google-drive-to-external-hard-drive.html#:~:text=Connect%20the%20external%20hard%20drive,in%20the%20pop%2Dup%20window.

• Way 1. Sync files to external hard drive using Drive for desktop

• Way 2. Sync files to external hard drive with Google Drive disk

• Way 3. Sync Google Drive to external hard drive automatically

• Bonus tip: how to sync & backup Google Drive to another cloud

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