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Select whether you want the Drive shortcut only on the desktop or in the Start menu as well.

Once the page loads, right-click on Google Drive and select Create Shortcuts.

Type and enter chrome://apps in the URL bar OR click the Apps icon in the bookmarks bar.

Method 2- Create Google Drive Shortcut Using Chrome Apps Clicking the shortcut will take you directly to the said Google Drive file or folder. You can now rename it based on the file or folder.

Keep holding the left click and drag the URL to your desktop.ĭropping the URL on the desktop will create a shortcut.

Click on the lock icon next to the full webpage URL.

Resize the browser window, so that browser and desktop are visible on the same screen.

Head to the Google Drive file or folder you want to create a shortcut for.

The same dialog is seen when clicking the gear in either the Activity or Account view. How do I make Drive for Desktop confine itself to only mirroring, the way I have it set up in Windows?ĮDIT: Here's what I see in Finder and on my desktop Finder showing two Google Drive foldersĪfter clicking on the Google Drive taskbar icon

One is my old Google Drive folder and a new one, containing the same files, but all having "cloud" badges indicating they're being streamed.

In Finder I now see TWO "Google Drive" folders. The Preferences dialog for Google Drive on the Mac looks completely different from the one on Windows and lists no options to control anything except Launch on Startup and some cache directory settings. It wants to sync my entire hard disk to Google so it can stream the files, which I do not want to do. I was just forced to install the new Drive on a MacBook in place of Backup and Sync, and there does not seem to be any such option. When you install the "new" Google Drive for Desktop on Windows you get an option in the preferences dialog to turn off streaming and just continue to use mirroring - you can specify which folders to sync. This question is about the new Google Drive for Desktop on a MacBook Pro with Catalina 10.15.7.