Please reach out to if you have any questions. We use rclone constantly for all kinds of projects and, if you’re comfortable on the command line (or a script-kiddie like me), you can use rclone to mount Drive as a network drive to any machine. InSync now supports Drive File Stream! (we don’t have a device to test … let us know!) You can leverage this tool for a few months until Drive File Stream releases their next large update which is stated to support Drive FS. And they do not currently support ARM-based devices either. If you get a chance to test it out, let us know. There’s a free trial for testing … depending on your use case, it may be worth a look! They’ve always had some slick features. We’ve got a note out to our friends at Insync (our goto Drive client for Linux) for more feedback on ARM machines. The user leverages as their primary interface AND they’re able to launch desktop apps like Word directly from the web.

This allows the User to launch the desktop app from the web … which is really the whole reason for Drive File Stream in the first place. Grab the free Universal File Opener (UFO) from our friends at AODocs. This lapse in foresight now makes them look like they were asleep at the wheel. Then I remembered that Transmit had the feature to turn a cloud service into a local drive, however after further reading I found this no longer worked as they don’t support the Transmit Disk feature anymore.Īfter migrating from my Intel MacBook Pro to my M1, I tried to do some sleuthing to find where the Google Drive data was stored to see if the files were readable locally.Google Support has acknowledged the issue and is working to fix this limitation ASAP. I found that Transmit had support for Google Drive and I could log in to my Google Drive using that App. Manipulating Files in the Finder on Google Drive when Drive is no longer a folderĪs I have many Hazel rules that sort files into my Google Drive files, I have been trying to find a way to sync my files from my local folder.

As of this writing Google Drive’s native Mac application is not supported on M1 Macs because it is a kernel extension and those don’t run intel code on the M1 architecture.

Google drive for desktop m1