Been doing research to see if anyone has some hard answers.
I use Google Drive under a G Suite for business account. I’ve been being hit with a 24 hour ban from Google Drive. The error I get is “quota exceeded for this file”, applies inconsistently to all files on the drive.
I have a large amount media hosted on Google Drive. When I update paths, Plex refreshes the library and file are “downloaded”, according to Google. Only a small portion of the file is download but that doesn’t seem to make a difference. Google has been unable to provide a solution. Has anyone else run into this? If yes, do you have a good solution?
Are you talking about Plex Cloud? You might be better off posting your question in there…
But yeah, the dreaded ban is hanging over us all. Try not to update or refresh too often and you should be good. I haven’t run into a problem so far, but then I never manually refresh!
@jajmedia said:
Been doing research to see if anyone has some hard answers.
I use Google Drive under a G Suite for business account. I’ve been being hit with a 24 hour ban from Google Drive. The error I get is “quota exceeded for this file”, applies inconsistently to all files on the drive.
I have a large amount media hosted on Google Drive. When I update paths, Plex refreshes the library and file are “downloaded”, according to Google. Only a small portion of the file is download but that doesn’t seem to make a difference. Google has been unable to provide a solution. Has anyone else run into this? If yes, do you have a good solution?
As @per_PLEX_ed stated, this can happen with both Plex Cloud, or using the Google Drive File Stream and using Google Drive as a local drive. Since it’s Google and it’s API limits that you are hitting, there isn’t much Plex can do.
And if you are not talking about PlexCloud than you should have a look at github.com/dweidenfeld/plexdrive
Thanks for the responses. We’ve reduced the amount of refreshes, haven’t been banned since. Will try Google Drive FUSE if it comes back.
I’m wondering if anyone has information on the actual API limits. It seems Google does not want to disclose that, but this unknown can affect productivity.
I wonder if the limit gets adjusted by the actual load on their servers. If a customer becomes a problem they get limited. This way they can keep their services running as fast as possible and only punish those that are stressing it’s limits.
I say this in part because anything like an official limit that I have read does not match the performance I see in a production environment.
