Google Drive CPU usage is high after upgrading to Sequoia

Can confirm. Mac mini M4. Google Drive at like 35 - 50%. Unplug external USB monitor (usb-c to hdmi), drops to almost 0%.

Fixed for me finally! Yay! Nice work everyone reporting the issue to Google!

i.lewis.au wrote:

I provided feedback to the Google Drive team via the settings in the desktop app. I assume that the more feedback they get, the more attention the issue will get, so has everyone done this?

This is the only real way to get any company's, including Apple, attention. Excellent advice.

Yes, uninstalling the app by dragging to the bin or whatever doesn't clean out the data stored in ~/Library etc. In general, having that data still there is useful for re-installation, however in this case maybe not so much. The Google Drive data seems to be in '/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS', but there might be others I haven't come across.

This may be the solution I have to take. I'm thoroughly into Google with 4 accounts that I use daily between work and a volunteer job (hence I can change to another service), and I need to see if that's what choking up my MBPro.

Thanks for the tip!

So the blinkers are firmly in place at Google... Not sure what testing they do, but surely this issue would show up????? I've moved all files to OneDrive and disabled Google Drive until it's resolved, but even then do I want / need the extra process running?

On my Macbook Pro M3, I only see the problem if I have two or more displays active. If I unplug my external display, the problem goes away. If I plug in my external display and close the lid on the laptop (leaving only the external display active), the problem also goes away.

JustForComment wrote:

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way for an individual user to update to Google Drive version 100.

I went here and downloaded GoogleDrive.dmg and updated, and am still on version 99:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10838124?hl=en#zippy=%2Cinstall-set-up-drive-for-desktop-for-macos

There is no option in the Google Drive app to update the app.

The update worked for me!

Thanks.

I can confirm that upgrading the Google Drive app to version 100.0.2 has fixed the cpu usage problem for me. I was able to download it via a download link another user provided in a discussion forum, but that link has since been removed.

Thank you for sharing the download link,

For those who have email alerts turned on, you can go into your email client and find the link that Braden kindly shared, that's how I updated to 100.02 and this has resolved this issue for me.

Just wish I didn't have to use Google Drive........

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The ridiculous part is that their policy claims that it's OK to share a link if it "directly resolves the problem being discussed" or something along those lines. And apparently your attempt to re-share it has also been scrubbed, too.

It's not like I was trying to share some shady link to a random cloud service provider... it's a direct, publicly available link that Google themselves host.

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The 100.0.2.0 update has fixed the issue on my system as well. The reality though, is that I've moved most things off Google Drive and no longer need to run sync automatically now, so it likely won't be running by default anyway.