“Actually” () Google Drive is crashing all the time if you try to sync more than ~3000 files. This is because of a memory leak in the app and an other interesting point! Google Drive is an 32 Bit application.
There actually is just one way to sync Google Drive. Restart Google Drive every ~20 Minutes when you got an error message like:
NSMallocException – Attempt to allocate xxxx bytes for NS/CFData filed.
With this script you automatically can restart Google Drive every 20 Minuted for the initial synchronization:
#!/bin/bash while true; do killall Google\ Drive open /Applications/Google\ Drive.app sleep 1200 done DriveRestart.sh