mmindenhall

Google recently replaced their "Backup and Sync" application for personal accounts with a new Google Drive application for both personal and corporate accounts. Since the new application was installed, I'm seeing the following behavior. I restart my computer. After logging in, applications are started, and Alfred pops up a message that it can't find the preferences folder. I click "Continue", and Alfred starts with the default preferences (I think) I quit and restart Alfred, and the second time it finds the preferences folder and starts with no errors. I think there's a race condition here between the new Google Drive app and Alfred. They're both set to "start automatically", but Alfred is getting started before Google Drive, so the volume where the preferences folder is stored is not yet mounted. Once I quit Alfred and restart after it fails, it succeeds because the volume has been mounted. It would be appreciated to have some retry logic here (e.g., retry accessing the preferences every second for 5 seconds when starting) before displaying the error message. Many thanks!