Totally ! Spotlight works beautifully when using the File Provider API. Even extended File attributes like tags come through....And very simple actual;y to get the SMB tricked indexed by Spotlight (I explained here in the thread). No idea why Google ...

Absolutely. I tried it both on a new Macbook Air with M1 and on a Macbook Pro 16 with Intel. MacOS 12.2.1 and Gdrive 55.0.33In localhost you will Googfel Drive appearing that gets indexed (including MacOS extended file info like tags etc...). You the...

Really apppreciated @BoI_Admin ; hope this is again marked as unsolved. This whole story is not as innocenent as it seems; sorry @JC-. Google is messing this up deliberately. Their purpose is that we migrate to browser instead of using desktop app. P...

Which workaround is working? The issues at hand of this horrid amateur update of Google are:1. All of a sudden no MacOS extended file attributes supported2. No integration in Spotlight?Which solution solves those issues?Again: Dropbox works beautiful...

Tried this and solved for now. Would like feedback from @JC- @BoI_Admin "Under Finder, select "Connect to Server" - enter this: smb://localhost:51000"in my terminal I typed : mdutil /Volumes/Google\ Drive -i on, when I hit return ,this message popped...