How can I rename Google Drive for Desktop volumes?

reno_queen

I am using version 51 of Google Drive for Desktop. It has four accounts added to it. Each account is mounted to MacOS (Mojave) as a volume. Each volume has an irritatingly long name like: accountname@domainname.tld - Google Drive . I have four of these in my Finder's Sidebar, I want to rename these, but cannot. I also these four accounts with irritatingly long name mounted on the Desktop. I would like to rename these too, but cannot. I have...

Originally asked by mr.cook on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I don't think I'm nearly as sophisticated as the poster so my solution may not stick. I just opened my home folder with Drive for Desktop running and saw my various drives there. I renamed them. Quit Google Drive. And when it reopened it automatically recreated those same shortcut folders using the original annoying names with email addresses. But the other shortcut folders I renamed remain in the folder and still work. So I added those to the finder sidebar and removed the ones Google Drive had added. So this seems to have worked? Hope this helps.

Full answer by Ben: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1750826 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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