Unable to save settings - Google Drive
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Hello Community,
I'm using multiple computers, but want to work with the same project files on both. Therefore I created a Google Drive folder, which I can use offline via Backup&Sync. Backup&Sync also updates my project files if anything changes (of course only if I'm online). This solutions worked fine for me, but since 3 days I'm getting an error "Unable to save settings".
Is this error caused by Google Drive and is there a solution for the issue? Or an alternative?
Thanks for the help!
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Please consider using version control to share the project between systems.
There could be some permissions issue saving your files, check idea.log for details (https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/207241085).
Maybe disabling http://i.imgur.com/wzNHcXX.png would help?
Thanks for the feedback.
I disabled "use safe write". I will check if the error appears again in the next days, then I will try using a version control.
Hi Robert did this resolve your issue pls advise, as I wish to do same thing, I'm using multiple machines and want to just pickup where I left off as I transition between machines. I'm using Github with GitHub Desktop locally and want to put it all on G-drive including intellij
Yes it did. Now it works perfectly fine. I highly recommend it if you want to synchronize your projects over multiple computers.
The only issue I'm facing is the "Access denied" error. But a simple way to fix it: just pause the G-drive-client while you're working with IntelliJ. Afterwards just continue the upload and you're good to go.
I think this error is caused by the fact, that both the G-drive-client and IntelliJ are reading/writing the same file. Perhaps there is an easier way to solve this problem, than pausing the client.
Hope that helped you.
Pause the G-drive client yes that does make sense if both are reading writing which they will be I'll give it a go. Thank you