Can't Search Mac for Folders Located in the Google Drive Folder

Does this issue exist on PC? I can more easily go back to a PC at this point than I can moving to a new file storage system. I've been struggling with this since last fall as well. It seems Apple doesn't plan on fixing the issue... For what we pay for their devices I don't think we are getting the value out of it.

Why is this marked as "Solved"? It didn't solve the problem for the majority who use Team Drives. Is Apple trying to wash its hands of this issue by jumping on the most minor of work arounds as a solution?

A Miracle Happened Today in Monterey. The google drive icon appeared on my toolbar, I clicked upon it and it popped up on my desktop as it had once upon a time in High Sierra. I conducted a routine spotlight search of files in the google drive and voilà, results.

Thanks to whoever did what. No point in playing the Blame Game. I hope this issue resolves itself for every one and every device.

I got really excited and ran this update. It didn't change anything for me....it still finds nothing when I search known file names that I have in the Team Drives. We have the right to play the "blame game" as this has been an issue for too long.

Sorry about that. I wish I could explain what changed on our set-up. I haven't installed the 12.3 update yet on the MacBook, so maybe it was a Google revision. I'll get a report from others in my office who share the Google Drive and see if the problem persists.

I think the main problem is my office uses Team Drives where most people use their own individual drives. I use the Google Drive File Stream to access my files on the computer rather than through the web browser. In the top right corner of the Finder window there is a search bar that I would use all the time to search file names that were known to me (I created a file naming convention that would allow me to search for just the start of a file name type and it would display all variations that matched it - this would help me with searching through files if I didn't remember a date or other more specific details). Running a search on the Macs Finder search tool worked flawlessly and would populate search results almost instantly. Now, ever since this thread began it doesn't bring up any results and the only way I can find files on Team Drives is by searching through a web browser. If I have these files saved on "My Drive" it will search them, but that is because I have them saved to the computer as well. It comes down to it no longer searches mirrored files (ones that are only stored online). This is how they've always been set up, we never changed any settings here.

I have just recently updated to Mac OS Monterey and didn't do any changes to Google Drive setup. This update changed the behavior of the search, now Finder is unable to find any files on Google Drive. So this is a Mac OS problem?

It's an incompatibility between Mac OS and Google Drive, and neither Apple or Google seem to care. You can use Google Drive's built-in search instead of the finder. Not an ideal solution but it sorta works.

I found a solution. The reason why we are not able to search is that "streaming" is now the default option and spotlight cannot screen streaming files unless we tick the option on Google drive preferences. To do it, you have to click on the dropbox icon on the top you will see the settings wheel, over it and click "preferences" now you see another setting wheels again click on it.

You will see a list of options and one that says: "Enable Spotlight to search streaming files"

I found the solution! Open your Google Drive Preferences and click on the gear icon in the top right corner, on that page is a setting for "Spotlight Integration" check the box to enable it. You'll have to restart your Google Drive and it took a minute or two for the search to start working but it did. This fixed the problem for me.

Yes - I found the same solution and it worked for me as well. You have to click the Google Drive icon, then click the settings gear, then select preferences, then select another settings gear in the upper right (once the preferences screen is open), then under spotlight integration you need to check the box that says "enable spotlight to search streaming files".

Never noticed this before (maybe it's newish?) but the Google Drive app does have its own search functionality. Click the Gdrive icon in the top menu bar, and then the magnifying glass icon.

If everyone on this thread sends a report to Google, maybe there's a chance of a fix happening.

From your menu bar, click the Google Drive Icon, then the gear icon, then send feedback.

ISSUE SOLVED! You can now enable the feature within the google drive settings.