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I recently installed Google Drive in my Windows 8 Pro and there is a folder for Google Drive. When I put my files into this folder it got uploaded to Google Drive. When the uploads were completed, I deleted the files from my Google Drive folder in my computer.
Then after some time I logged in to my Google Drive account and was unable to see my uploaded files there. Why is this?
I was trying to find the time for items in the past, found it by clicking the (i) for details, then clicking the activity tab. On the date that's shown hover over and the time is displayed!
Well, you're pretty much screwed. If you don't have any kind of remote access to your laptop, or some sort of access, you have no way of getting in there and removing all that local data.
What you could do is back up your Google Drive folder, delete all the data from it, and hope the automatic sync will remove your data from the laptop when the perpetrator attempts to access it.
Best Answer
The Google Drive folder is a local representation of what files you currently have uploaded into your Google Drive storage.
If you delete a file in your Drive folder on your computer, it is reflected on the Drive website.