What is Google Drive for Desktop?Īs mentioned earlier, the latest version of Google Drive for Desktop is a unified tool. After all, the software was designed like this, but if more reports can be captured from affected users, maybe Google might do something about it. We don’t know if this will change in the future. The product expert invites those affected to send their feedback to Google to make them aware of the dissatisfaction this change has caused. This complicates a process that was simpler before. Then, use Sync preferences in Folders from the computer.

The workaround consists of copying or moving the folders out of the stream to another location. In one of the reports, Google’s product expert said there is no way to index streamed content. Apparently, this is the behavior expected by Google for its new Drive for Desktop client. There’s a workaround, but not everyone will like itįor those who were hoping this was a bug to be solved, there is bad news. As a result, users have lost the ability to search local files. Now, with the new Google Drive for Desktop, the synced files are part of a network drive but the option to index its contents is not available. This was possible because the synced files were physically on the hard drive. With the previous client, users simply used the local search (Windows or macOS) to directly access their files stored in Google Drive. This was possible with the previous version.Īs expected, this generated complaints ( 1, 2) among those who have had no similar issues with the previous Backup & Sync tool. Several reports are indicating that, after updating the client, their computers stopped indexing the files synchronized between the cloud and the PC. Google Drive for Desktop, the unified solution for file synchronization and cloud storage, seems to have lost its local indexing features on Windows and Mac. Original story (published on October 19, 2021) follows: New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

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