![]() I did a right-click for Properties on my Google Drive folder (now called ".shortcut-targets-by-id") I'm literally screwed and going to lose clients over this mess. And we have about 400 GB across 2 accounts affected by this. How this was not foreseen to be a problem for anyone using Google Drive on a Windows machine is beyond me. (The so-called "shortcuts" added ~84 characters to my file paths, and that doesn't include the folder and file name text!!!) Then if I move a file that has links within it from C:\ to Google Drive afterward for backup/sync, the embedded links are no longer valid anymore. This has caused me over a week's worth of problems and project delays with no end in sight, and the only workaround is to copy files to the C:\ drive and work there to keep path lengths manageable. ![]() But the mirror folders created on my D:\ drive still have the huge shortcut paths and seem to just point back to the G:\ drive (formerly the cloud storage locations)? Talk about redundant (useless, and a waste of hundreds of gigabytes of storage space). ![]() This would supposedly keep all my files in the cloud and return the file structure locally on my computer. I even logged on to Admin Console and changed from only streaming files (G:\ drive) to mirror files. ![]() It broke links within Excel files (links to other spreadsheets), CAD files, block files within CAD files, even shared folders assigned to our copier, scanners, scan to email, etc. Yes, I started having problems last week when the shortcuts were implemented on my Workspace account and Google Drive.
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