- #How do i get google drive icon on my desktop Pc#
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Edit: Google even recommends this as an "alternative" in its documentation. That way I'm dealing with shortcuts to files and not folders, which are more lenient as I explained earlier with the "Shared Excel.xlsx" story.
#How do i get google drive icon on my desktop Pc#
The only way I found to circumvent this shared folder limitation on my PC was to open the folder in Google Drive web and create individual shortcuts for every file inside my Drive. What's inside shows up on your computer, regardless if you're the owner or recipient. Dropbox, One Drive, and others simply treat folders as folders. No other cloud storage service and sync app does things this way, as far as I know. In fewer words, local access for folders is utterly nerfed. Edit: See the "Interesting side effects" section above for more info. On the web, it's clear that they're still the owner, but locally, that doesn't matters very little because the file now belongs to another structure. It's only accessible from that dang folder shortcut. But when the changes sync locally to their computer, that file, which was on their machine, is gone, poof, deleted.