{"id":4803,"date":"2012-05-07T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:59:55","slug":"google-drive-and-mac-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/google-drive-and-mac-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive and Mac Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did some preliminary testing with version 1.0.2960.1377 of <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/\">Google Drive<\/a>. At first glance, it seems to be a lot like Dropbox except that it&rsquo;s slow and doesn&rsquo;t work very well. At launch, it fills the Console with errors like:<\/p>\n<pre>5\/7\/12 2:22:58.497 PM [0x0-0x70070].com.google.GoogleDrive: objc[1082]: Object 0x2f1a8d0 of class OC_PythonString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug\n5\/7\/12 2:22:58.497 PM [0x0-0x70070].com.google.GoogleDrive: objc[1082]: Object 0x2f10af0 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug\n5\/7\/12 2:22:58.497 PM [0x0-0x70070].com.google.GoogleDrive: objc[1082]: Object 0x2f0f5f0 of class __NSCFData autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug<\/pre>\n<p>This makes it appear as if the developers weren&rsquo;t very experienced with Objective-C and also didn&rsquo;t test it.<\/p>\n<p>Uploading took around 20 minutes for a folder with under 100 files and 100K. (I never thought I&rsquo;d write the phrase &ldquo;slower than iDisk.&rdquo;) It reported numerous &ldquo;unknown&rdquo; upload errors. They kept occurring when I clicked &ldquo;Retry&rdquo; but did not recur after restarting the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>I waited 40 minutes for it to download 17 files totaling 60 KB, after which it seemed to have stopped making progress, and I gave up. Of the files that it completely downloaded, it did not transfer the following metadata: label, creation date, extended attributes, locked flag, invisible flag. Dropbox <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/dropbox\/\">initially<\/a> had problems with these as well, but as of <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/dropbox-1-0\/\">version 1.0<\/a> it handles them properly. (The test file with the resource fork was one of the ones that didn&rsquo;t download before I gave up.)<\/p>\n<p>I assume that my experience is not typical, or I would have read about more people reporting problems. But from what I&rsquo;ve seen, this is one Google product that should have stayed in beta.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some preliminary testing with version 1.0.2960.1377 of Google Drive. At first glance, it seems to be a lot like Dropbox except that it&rsquo;s slow and doesn&rsquo;t work very well. At launch, it fills the Console with errors like: 5\/7\/12 2:22:58.497 PM [0x0-0x70070].com.google.GoogleDrive: objc[1082]: Object 0x2f1a8d0 of class OC_PythonString autoreleased with no pool in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-19T19:59:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"265f90ef-dfc0-4b61-bdd1-e4efb9eda1e4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-19T19:59:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJl-Q79_AS2G90eTvue2h5A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1902,1432,30],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-extended-attributes","tag-google-drive","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}