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Originally Posted by dmcritchie
I don't see how it can be true that GD changes the names of files, for two reasons: 1) if it did, then NO application could ever find the files that were stored on GD, since typically files are opened by filename. And 2), I have a "My Drive" folder on my Windows 10 PC that is mirrored (sync'd) to GD in the cloud (using GoogleDriveSetup.exe). Even if GD were to change the names of files under the hood in the cloud, they apparently do not change it in the My Drive folder on my PC.
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Sorry, you are wrong. GD does change the name of files. Calibre puts a database id number enclosed in parentheses at the end of the file name. Under some mysterious conditions GD will interpret that number as a version number and change it. It has happened to me several times.