

In the preferences window click the cogwheel again. Right click the Google Drive icon in the system tray and click the cogwheel.

You can of course uncheck the "deny" checkbox in step 5 at any time if you wish to modify your Quick Access again. Personally I have a pretty static list of shortcuts that I want there so it's not a big deal. You won't be able to either pin or unpin any folders to it. The big downside to it is that it also prevents you from modifying the Quick Access. By denying write access to it, the Drive app (and anything else) won't have the proper permissions to add the shortcut to the Quick Access menu and thus fails in doing so. The f01 file is where windows stores the Quick Access list. At the bottom half of the window check "deny" next to the Write permissions. Right click that file and go to Properties, then go to the Security tab, and click the Edit button to change permissions Īt the top half of the window, under "group or user names", highlight "Administrators". Locate the file that starts with "f01" (full name: tomaticDestinations-ms) Navigate to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations (This folder is hidden even if you have Hidden Items enabled, so copy this address and paste it in the File Explorer's address bar directly) Right click the Drive shortcut under Quick Access and unpin it They come with their own downsides, but they work for me and wanted to share the info for anyone who was as frustrated as I. So I made a custom Quick Access shortcut linking directly to my Drive folder, and managed to ultimately hide both the Quick Access shortcut the app creates and the virtual drive itself.ĭisclaimer: These are workarounds at best and not pretty by any means. So with this new app I now have two extra shortcuts in my File Explorer menu, both linking to yet another shortcut that links to the actual location I want to be in. If you use the Mirror Files sync setting, the only thing this virtual drive contains is a shortcut to the actual Drive folder on your pc elsewhere. boot your pc) - even if you had unpinned it before. Likewise, the app forcefully adds a Quick Access shortcut linking to the same virtual drive and re-adds it every time you launch the Drive program (or e.g. This app creates a virtual disk which is of course shown under This PC in Windows Explorer. Today, I was forced to switch from Backup & Sync to the new Google Drive for Desktop app.
