Error 500 with empty directory

[NauticalMile64]

Today my google drive was not syncing with the grive command due to this error:

Reading local directories
Reading remote server file list
request failed due to temporary error: 500 (body: {
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "internalError",
    "message": "Internal Error"
   }
  ],
  "code": 500,
  "message": "Internal Error"
 }
}
). retrying in 5 seconds

It would retry and repeat the message. I restarted my system without success. Eventually I noticed that recently I had created a new empty directory on another computer recently, which had synced on my Ubuntu grive. Adding a dummy file to this folder allowed me to sync again without issue.

Please correct this so syncing empty directories do not give the 500 error.