Issue opening files from Google Drive Finder window after installing macOS Ventura 13.3 update

I'm disappointed as well. Office is my daily driver and this makes my workflow much slower. I've always extolled macOS for its reliability, now I'm just ****** off. It's unbelievable that this happened, even Windows doesnt have such big bugs.

I found the solution. You have to delete the old Drive folder and then create a new one (with a new name, e.g.: Drive2023) on the HD (I created it in Documents) and set it up this in Google Drive. It's synced and now everything opens properly.

From the release notes (emphasis mine):

"Resolved Issues

Fixes a regression in macOS Ventura 13.3 where a security check causes bookmark resolution to fail when the path contains Unicode characters stored with composed normalization. As an example, this prevented files in Finder from opening when double-clicked. (107550080)"

I'm reluctant to install a beta, but at least it seems to be taken care of.

Hi,

I've had the same issue for some time now (double-click in Finder opens just the app, not the file), both on a M1 Mac Mini 2020 (Ventura 13.3.1) and a 2014 MBP 13" (Big Sur 11.7.6.), running Google Drive 73.0.4.0 (Silicon, Intel, respectively).

It does seem that it's files with Czech diacritics (š, č, ř, í, etc.) that are problematic. Removing (= renaming) those symbols make the files open normally.

Also it seems to have something to do with folders structure - e.g. all non-diacritics file in a certain folder (which happens to appear with the normal blue icon in Finder) open normally, but a non-diacritic file in another folder (which appears with plain list icon in Finder) doesn't.

No proposed solution has worked on either system so far, very very debilitating.

Hello

Same issue while using Synology Drive.

No solution found, very frustrating.

Questioning Apple product strategy related to the usage of NAS, as we've seen functional evolutions restricting usage on Music, Photos.

Same issues here with Ventura 13.3.1, M2 Pro, Google Drive and German special characters. Very annoying! The workaround with fake-renaming the files works for me, however, I would have expected a bit more from an operating system in 2023.

I am facing the same issue on Macbook Pro M1 - Ventura 13.3.1. I have folders syncing with Google Drive which have Spanish characters in their names like á, é, í, ó, ú. Can't open any files inside these folders. Files and folders without these characters open fine.

FIXED FOR ME: Remove special characters from names, then change them back, that specific file/folder will work again.

Same problem.

Decided like this:

In my Google Drive settings, I specified "Store files in the cloud" and then right-clicked on the "My Drive" folder and specified "Enable offline access" (including for all nested files and folders). Google drive reloaded all the files and they began to open automatically - by double clicking.

My friend confirmed it was fixed in the next update, 13.4 Vetura Mac OS. I hope to see it soon.

"File Bookmark

Resolved Issues

Fixes a regression in macOS Ventura 13.3 where a security check causes bookmark resolution to fail when the path contains Unicode characters stored with composed normalization. As an example, this prevented files in Finder from opening when double-clicked. (107550080)"

I can confirm that this trick worked for me. I had to do it on the files and on the folder names included in the path of files that use French diacritic characters. Maybe 13.4 solves the problem for all users, but this work around is good to know in the meantime. Note that the problem happen to me with mp3 files also. In and out of Google Drive.

I had the exact same problem.

As some others have pointed here, I solved it by temporarily changing the names of any folders that had extrange characters, as á, é, í, ó, ú. After doing that, I can open any file inside those folders.

Thanks to your reply i tried to rename my folder with diacritics to non diacritics version and voilá, the files inside the forders are now able to open. Then i renamed the folders back with diacritics and they are workning and opening as well, doesn't understand what bug was in that, maybe some wrong update.

Only solution I have found is to select the file, press enter to highlight the filename, then press enter again. This "renames" the file locally with the same name and can be opened OK.

Have you checked that Google has provided a newer version of Google Drive than you are using?