Google Drive¶

Mount Google Drive as a Windows drive. Files stream on demand; nothing is mirrored to local disk.

Before you begin¶

Prepare the following in advance:

Help from Google

Click Add in the toolbar.
Choose Personal → Google Drive.
Pick what to mount: My Drive (default), Shared with me, Shared drives, or Folder — a specific folder (see Mount a specific folder below).
Set the drive letter and name.
Click Connect. Your browser opens — sign in to Google and click Allow.

Instead of the whole Drive, you can mount the selected folder.

Specify the folder one of two ways:

Click the folder icon to open a folder browser — it asks you to sign in first, then double-click into the folder you want and click OK.
Or select the Shared Link tab and paste the URL directly. Open the folder at drive.google.com and copy the URL from your browser's address bar.

Computer backups aren't browsable in-app — get the folder's URL from drive.google.com/drive/computers instead, and paste it into Shared Link.

Setting	Description	Default
Drive letter	Where the drive mounts in Windows	first available
Name	Label shown in Explorer	Google Drive
Read-only	Blocks writes to the mounted drive	off

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides are web-native documents — they appear on the drive as .gdoc, .gsheet, and .gslides files that open in the browser rather than as local files.
Files deleted on the drive are moved to Google Drive's Trash, where they can be restored.
Heavy parallel transfers may be throttled by Google API quotas.
Google Drive allows characters Windows doesn't — an existing name using one shows up percent-encoded on the drive; see FAQ.

Symptom	Cause	Fix
Sign-in window loops	Stale cached credential	Remove the account in RaiDrive and connect again
Expected files missing	Wrong Drive section mounted	Check whether the drive points at My Drive or Shared drives
"The user's Drive storage quota has been exceeded"	The account's total Google storage is full	Free space across the account (Drive, Gmail, Photos, trash)
Uploading into Shared with me fails	The folder counts against the owner's storage	Ask the owner to free up space