Enable Spotlight Indexing for Google Drive on Mac

Spotlight can’t search Google Drive files on Mac. Learn how to enable indexing with a simple terminal command for seamless file searches.Google’s official client for Mac OS, “Backup and Sync” is no more. It has been replaced by “Google Drive” now. One problem is that the new approach exposes files as a Network Drive, which, for some reason, isn’t indexed by Spotlight. So, you can no longer search for the Google Drive files via Spotlight unless you re-enable the indexing. After jumping through multiple non-working solutions, I found one that enables indexing on Google Drive. Bash 1 2 3 4 # Enable Google Drive indexing and wait for a few minutes for the files to be indexed $ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/GoogleDrive/ # Confirm that indexing is enabled $ sudo mdutil -a -i on