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MedioyMediaBA
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May 7, 2022
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Google Drive shortcuts do not work in Mac OS

  • May 7, 2022
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I use heavily recommend Bridge for the whole creative workflow in video or graphics, but macOS do not support double click on a shortcut created directly in Google Drive; this works perfectly on Windows, but I'm surprised Adobe hasn't noticed yet. Why?

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PIXELPROOF PLUS+
Participant
May 30, 2022

I too use Bridge heavily, in one view I can see all the things I need - folder path, file preview, exif info, and optional viewing as list or grid view. It gives me a great advantage in organization and creative workflow that I need. My workaround on this is to mirror my google drive to a local external drive (yes, I dedicated a portable external drive), it then sync any updates made and I can leave my workstation syncing. But just this weekend I learned that Google Drive is just keeping 1 original folder and replaced all its mirrors as shortcuts to the original folder. With this update I can no longer access Google Drive via Bridge anymore... that and I need to re-linking all my InDesign links using the google drive new folder path which is a virtual drive (but I probably package and store locally moving forward)

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MedioyMediaBAAuthor
Participant
May 31, 2022

That's weird, it works perfectly for me even with InDesign and any Adobe app. The only thing I can't do is to double-click a shortcut and enter that folder, to do so, I have to copy the path from the Finder and then paste it in Bridge, so I can access the specific folder. Doing this all the time is really annoying when you're working in a collaborative way with a lot of shortcuts added into your main Drive location.

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Lumigraphics
Legend
May 9, 2022

Google Drive is NOT SUPPORTED in Bridge and it will fail in random ways at random times. Do not rely on it.

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MedioyMediaBAAuthor
Participant
May 31, 2022

I appreciate your polite answer, but, WHY it works perfectly on Windows since forever Google Drive built this architecture system of synced files via web-cloud on your hard drive? I mean, why Adobe do not develop the same architecture to make the shortcuts works as they work for Windows?

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