Fwiw, I tried to do this mapping and found it did not work, much to my chagrin. My conjecture is that Apple has disallowed adding symlinks or other mappings to /Volumes.
Facing the inability to map the OS location back to /Volumes/GoogleDrive..., I decided to adjust my home directory links ~/gd (My Drive) and ~/sd (Shared Drive) to the new Drive locations: ~/Library/CloudStorage/GoogleDrive-foo@domain.com where "foo@domain.com" is the email address one would use to login to Google Drive. This was easy to do using the Macos Terminal app. Substitute your actual email address used to login to Google Drive for foo@domain.com in the following:
- Start the Terminal app. I use the CMD-space key and type Terminal and hit the return key. This will start a program called "ksh" and show you a prompt, something like "foo@blue ~ % " where "foo" is your username and "blue" is the name of your computer.
- Execute the following commands by typing the text in bold.
foo@blue ~ % ln -s ~/Library/CloudStorage/Google-foo@domain.com/My\ Drive ~/gd
foo@blue ~ % ln -s ~/Library/CloudStorage/Google-foo@domain.com/Shared\ drives ~/gd
Then use the links gd and sd in file paths to actually refer to the Google Drive base folders.
Apple broke this feature with no notice justifying it (I believe) as a security feature. Google and other third parties who would like to provide Users with access to non-Apple cloud storage are facing the reality that Apple will continue to make their jobs harder if not impossible. IMHO this is all about Apple wanting to own the whole pie rather than help make the pie bigger and have a larger slice. In a word, Greed, wrapped in a noble (but false) cloth of protecting Users. Shame on Apple.
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