How to resolve Google Drive file sync issues - red cross mark?

Google Drive is a cloud storage available to all Google Users. If you have a Gmail address, you have Google Drive access too. Every user gets a basic 15GB storage, which is quite sufficient to store your personal files. If you are already using Google Drive, you may already know that it is accessible at https://drive.google.com. Google Drive also has a "Backup and Sync from Google" which can be installed on computers to store and sync files to and from Google Drive. It is recommended to install the "Backup and Sync from Google" if you need to frequently manage files from the computer. Google Drive is also available for Android and other platforms too.

In this post, we shall discuss ways to resolve Google Drive sync issues.

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How to resolve Microsoft Outlook stuck on 'Loading Profile'?

Sometimes, when starting Microsoft Outlook, it would get stuck on 'Loading Profile' and it will never load or will take a long time to load. In this post, we shall see how to resolve Microsoft Outlook stuck on 'Loading Profile'.

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Google Adsense Auto Ads not working on Blogger blogs

Google recently introduced Auto Ads to allow Google to automatically publish ads on websites. The advantage for website owner is the ease of Google Adsense implementation, ad optimization as Auto ads will identify any available ad space and place new ads there, potentially increasing your revenue.

But, Google Adsense Auto Ads does not work with Blogger Blogs, another Google Product. (as on 2 June 2018).

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Solution to contacts getting merged randomly with each other on Android Phones | Contacts Corrector

There is a strange issue observed on Mi Redmi phones where contact numbers are getting merged with other contacts, randomly. This is creating a lot of confusion lately when dialing people or when receiving calls, since the phone shows another person's name instead of the caller.

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Mi PC Suite and USB connection problems: not detected and need to update your device to use Mi PC Suite

For those using Mi phones, you might as well be using Mi PC Suite to manage your phone from a computer using a USB cable. But lately, Mi PC Suite doesn't seems to be working for most people. There are a lot of threads in the Mi Forums as well complaining about issues with Mi PC Suite. While the Mi Phone is connected to computer using USB, when Mi PC Suite is opened, we get messages like:

1) Device not detected
2) You need to update your device to use Mi PC Suite
3) Can't connect to your device.

In this post, let's see the problems with Mi PC Suite and the status of this issue. If Mi PC Suite still does not work after the following troubleshooting steps, some compatible PC Suite softwares are listed at the end of this post that you can use to manage your Android Phone on computer. For this particular post, the system details of the Mi Phone, computer and Mi PC Suite are as follows.

System details:

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Website not accessible? How to resolve "Server not found" issues when attempting to browse sites?

While attempting to browse some sites, we sometimes encounter the error "Server not found". For example, while attempting to browse YouTube, a Firefox browser might through the error -

Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.youtube.com ....

as shown in the image above.

How to resolve "Server not found" issues when attempting to browse sites?

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Blogger Video Bar broken? Displays "This content isn't available over encrypted connections yet."

Blogger has a gadget or widget called "Video Bar" which allows us to display YouTube videos on our Blogger blog. The video bar has few settings that allows us to specify whether we want to display Most Viewed Videos and Top Rated Videos from YouTube. Or we can also specify channel(s) and keywords to filter and display.

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