Your drive is still mounted and files accessible. Steps 4-12 are necessary because the Google Drive won't just let you TYPE in the path (it's stupid) and for some reason needs to validate it right then and there.Īs long as you do NOT have Finder set to show hidden files ('dotfiles') on the desktop, your Google Drive icon is now hidden. Your Google Drive icon will disappear, but it's still running and mounted, in dotfile 'folder', so MacOS does not display the GD icon on the desktop. Press 'Shift+CMD+.' to toggle MacOS display of dotfiles back to OFF. Click OK!ĭO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW! Click and drag the folder you just renamed INTO the ORIGINAL Google Drive folder selector that popped up in step 3. You'll get a message about MacOS treating. Give it a name that starts with '.', like '.GoogleDrive' or something. Secondary click on this folder in this window, and select Rename. Once you do this, you have created a folder 'untitled folder'. This is okay - this operation requires elevated privileges so that's why this happens. Finder will probably prompt you to use your password or press your TouchID here. In some empty spot on in the Finder window in /Volumes, secondary (right) click, and select New Folder. (You could also press 'Shift+CMD+G' and type in '/Volumes' in the Go To Folder field that pops up.) In this second window, you'll need to navigate to the / (root) of your data drive, then open the Volumes folder. Open a new Finder window, and then on your keyboard, you'll need to press 'Shift+CMD+.' to show all the hidden 'dotfiles'.

Open Google Drive in the desktop app (from the menubar), and click on the gear icon in the upper right, then click Preferences.Ĭlick the Change button next to the 'Default mount point' path. Here's what I found that WORKS (as of 2) for me, and this solution just 'came to me' after I sat back and thought about it.

I've tried the 'setfile -A V' trick on the drive mountpoint (doesn't work), and of course if you have other external drives like I do that you WOULD like to see, then hiding all external drives in Finder preferences is also not quite right.

Missing google drive icon