RStudio and Google Drive syncing problems: Mark II - r

There is an enormous amount this on the web (see here and here and here) but no clear solution. So this question may be a duplicate but there was no solution for the older versions.
I was just wondering if anyone has found a way to resolve this extremely annoying problem of the conflicts between the autosave functions in RStudio and Google Drive resulting in an error message 'the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process' interrupting your work every 5-10 seconds.
I recently bought a windows PC after years of reading PCs were better for running RStudio than a mac, but what a blunder that was. No such problems on the Mac OS.
Google drive is great and cheap but I would not have a huge problem with changing to a different cloud storage provider, but, from what I gather it's not just Google Drive but any cloud-based storage software that has this same incompatibility with RStudio.
I find it incomprehensible that this is a problem windows users who use R just have to live with.
So has anyone solved this problem? and if not, how do you work in RStudio and save your work without going crazy?!!??
Really I would love to know.

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Wildly old thread, but having the same issue myself.
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