Google Drive shortcuts do not work in Mac OS

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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

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

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

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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josearm

Participating Frequently

Is there any more detail available about what you mean by "fail in random ways"? Curious to read about attempted use cases that failed.

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Lumigraphics

Legend

If you sync folders on your computer with a cloud service, one or the other could be out of date. An application that wants to use files in a synced folder needs to be sure that the correct version is being opened. Apps which follow published APIs will tell the cloud service to sync those folders before making changes.

Since Adobe has little support for cloud services, you could easily access files that are out of sync. So version B in the cloud is newer, but you make changes to version A on the hard drive and save them, creating version C. The cloud service now syncs version C to the cloud and you lose the changes in version B.

just because something can be made to work doesn't make it technically advisable.

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