googledrivesync.exe
Summary
Google Drive Sync (legacy) - desktop sync client for Google Drive, replaced by Google Drive File Stream.
googledrivesync.exe is the 739th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,666 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Google\Drive and it is most often launched by googledrivesync.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Google\Drive70.1%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive25.8%
- C:\Users\...4.1%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 7281d9b746044db359262994d950994261ae7f4651553b64d24b30bef3b46b7012.8%
- 2c05b9c1593f814b58a5a47cf8d211769a939c1b43ba588ee3245db3c6e3aa8c9.46%
- f7b300edd1eb63cce9f2a96bb38adcbc7a5bce055e9e39bba3cc3341c8c38c036.57%
- 7f78886db1c2989965d289ce2a351ee6aa8b5ebf1c47d36f9439304b5da691fe6.37%
- 439589014c5e09db48e252c58431d9dd7a04a537b9085c1244ae83444da5fc236.15%
- 0610f5329fc4912133e7d493590d5e0a68d09282ae3e8d6eb645f9a0525d04b65.03%
- 4f4c5c83e0b48a3883eb72d8d2410e78d5a8715d417d3e615118b114c08c57574.46%
- 38d9199e134b5bb9bb4e9edb12c3811c930b7eb522c7821f86f705c5f565aca44.08%
- 9a9a002703a4a422eaa3597730af2023c2ee3b89b5ccfb2ea12c9efb97ec5ce23.56%
- f39aeef823c3e16bff65c0b81d2dc69ecc35ecada2b7dd242f12ee208408816d3.34%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe37.51%
- userinit.exe36.41%
- googledrivesync.exe10.22%
- msiexec.exe7.62%
- services.exe7.62%
- WerFault.exe0.21%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.05%
- OfficeC2RClient.exe0.05%
- OpenWith.exe0.05%
Top Parents
- googledrivesync.exe55.95%
- explorer.exe33.67%
- msiexec.exe10.14%
- OpenWith.exe0.04%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.04%
- chrome.exe0.02%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.02%
- sihost.exe0.02%
Top Children
- googledrivesync.exe91.96%
- chrome.exe5.09%
- WerFault.exe0.28%
- explorer.exe0.11%
- AcroRd32.exe0.04%
- GoogleUpdate.exe0.04%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.