MacBook – Google Drive doesn’t appear on the Finder

I emailed Google and got a few clues from them:

• Google does not track software incompatibilities, so there is no way to know if TotalFinder is responsible for the random " (1)" file duplications. I suspect it's not.
• Google Drive does not support resource forks or aliases. Dropbox has the same limitation, but it does not destroy the files like Google Drive does.

I have briefly documented the issues here.

My final word is that Dropbox is safer to use than Google Drive, and that both are limited in such a way that they cannot act as perfect substitutes to external hard drive backups.

It is possible that this could be a hardware problem? Specifically the logic board. I discovered mine needs replacing. I am having the same errors. I also discovered that launching the Unix Executable works for many of the apps that otherwise won't load. This makes no sense to me, but after hearing two Apple Support Technicians confirm, who am I to question.