My research lab has a lab Google account to which we are expected to save/upload all of our files. To avoid the messy challenge of maintaining local files that can be read by RStudio as well as Cloud versions on the shared Google Drive account, I have recently began using Drive for Desktop to stream files from the Drive to my desktop to open in RStudio. (More specifically, I share my folder in the lab Drive with my personal Drive which in turn is synced/streamed to my Mac desktop.)
However, I believe this creates conflicts when Drive tries to sync/access files while RStudio is also updating those files (see: zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven). I do get a pop-up every so often that I have to close, but that is manageable. A bigger problem for now is that I have noticed that the Drive is now filled with random empty folders (see screenshot below). These folders are located within .Rproj.user. Does anyone know how to prevent these random folders from being generated when I use RStudio in this fashion? It is annoying because they show up in the Google Drive 'home page' and 'Recents' for everyone who accesses the shared Drive.
The other posts linked above describe the need to exclude some file types from sync in order to prevent conflicts, but the directions were for the old Google Drive Back Up and Sync system. I cannot find these settings in the new Drive for Desktop system, and I do not know if this would solve the random folder generation problem.
Has anyone encountered this problem before, know what causes it, or how to fix it?
Many thanks in advance.
