carenax.blogg.se - Google drive installation complete but not installed

Manually removing the files in C:\Program Files\Google\Drive File Stream (or DriveFS depending on version).

(It actually failed to restore - I don’t know if it would have solved the problem if it had completed.) But they might work for you, depending on exactly how it’s broken in your case. I tried everything in this Quora answer and many others, with no success. I found a lot of forums with didn’t-read-the-question replies telling people to uninstall and reinstall, despite the fact that the problem reported was that neither would work! Five Ways that Didn’t Work For Me (But Might For You)

Windows couldn’t uninstall Google Drive because the uninstall.exe file was missing.Īnd the fresh installer wouldn’t reinstall because it insisted “A newer version is already installed” This is not an uncommon problem, it turns out, with variations like “A newer version of Google Drive is already installed,” “This version of Google Drive Files Stream is already installed,” “This version of Google Drive is already installed” and so on. So I downloaded a fresh copy of GoogleDriveSetup.exe from Google, and went into Add/Remove Programs to uninstall the broken copy. OK, Uninstall and reinstall, right? WRONG. My Windows computer crashed while Google Drive was updating itself (or Drive for Desktop, Google File Streams, Google Backup and Sync or whatever they’re calling it this week), leaving a broken installation on my system.