Using SyncBackPro > Technical Reference

Prior to April 2024, SyncBackPro connected to Google Drive using a special 2BrightSparks Client ID and Client Secret. A Client ID and Client Secret is like a username and password. It identified that it was SyncBackPro connecting to Google Drive. This made it very simple to use Google Drive as you only needed to approve that SyncBackPro could access your files.

However, due to ever tightening security constraints, Google has severely restricted which applications can access Google Drive using their own Client ID and Client Secret. Because of this, users of SyncBackPro must now create their own Client ID and Client Secret to allow SyncBackPro to access their Google Drive files.

To create your own Client ID and Client Secret for SyncBackPro please read our article online.

Once you have a Client ID and Client Secret you can use it in the Cloud Accounts so that you no longer need to enter it again.

In the future, you can retrieve the ID and secret by going to the Google Cloud Console, selecting this project, and going to Clients.