UPDATED 2240 20140505: Insync HQ has gotten back to me (and considering they’re in the Philippines, the delay makes sense). And they’ve been very quick about replying to e-mails and seem very anxious to make sure this problem is fixed. But it doesn’t seem that it’s something they can control They state:
…we only access your Google Drive so it’s possible that it’s orphaned and
thus not showing on Drive web (ie it’s impossible for Insync to access
someone else’s Drive as Insync would need access to the user tokens
which is approved by the user).
I’ve still only been able to get a hold of one of the users whose data I saw; they suggested that it might have been an accidental share as well by an employee. Which makes the lesson below even more important. I know that I was accidentally e-mailing someone with a letter difference for about two months earlier this year.
I use quite a few cloud services – Dropbox and Google Drive being two of the more flexible. And I use InSync to manage synchronizing the data between Google Drive and the desktop.
It’s been a great service – and then today I noticed something strange as I was cleaning up and organizing my Drive folder. There were a bunch of “shared with me” documents that I hadn’t synced.
And when I did start them synchronizing… well, I was surprised.