That’s why you cannot access Shared Drives with Google Drive Backup and Sync. And the Google Drive Backup and Sync is for individual personal users. The files always stay in Shared Drives on Google Drive server even if the members leave. Why cannot access Shared Drives with Backup and sync? Because Shared Drives stores file only belong to the team or organization, not a personal user. And you can only access the Google Drive Folder (owns all or part of the content in My Drive at ). Question from How Backup and Sync access Shared Drives?Īs a matter of fact, the Backup and Sync (now is Drive for desktop) desktop app cannot access the Shared Drives on your computer. For example, Google Docs appears as just a list of documents, instead of being contained in the folders in which the file owner created." Accessing it through a browser is inconvenient and confusing.
"Hi, I'm using Backup & Sync on Windows, and would like to be able to access the "Shared with me" folder in the Windows Explorer file manager. If you check the Google Drive folder on your computer, you should soon see your shared folder appear note it may take a minute or so for it to update and show up.Can Backup and Sync access to Share with Me Folder? Once that’s done, you should see a notification stating it has been added to “My Drive” on the bottom left of the screen:Īnd that’s it, that’s how you sync shared folders with Google’s Backup and Sync. What you want to do is add this shared folder to “My Drive” if “My Drive” isn’t already highlighted green, click on it so it is. With the shared folder selected, press Shift+Z on your keyboard, which should bring up a new menu: 2) Access the hidden menu with a keyboard shortcut to sync When the shared folder is properly selected, it will be highlighted in blue (such as my “ shared folder for desktop syncing” in the screenshot above).
Then, click on “Shared With Me” in the left column and then on the shared folder you want to sync: 1) Select the shared folder you want to syncįirst, find your shared folder in the web client, so go to (and log in if you’re not already). Read on to learn how to sync shared folders with Google’s Backup and Sync in two easy steps. Do you use Backup and Sync from Google (the successor to Google Drive Desktop) to sync your google drive to your computer but can’t figure out how to get shared folders to show up? While there may have been a more obvious way to enable that back in the Google Drive Desktop days before it was decommissioned in 2018, it’s now behind a hidden keyboard shortcut.
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