Rebooting the PC or relaunching Google Drive from the 'search everywhere' pane brings it back, but then the same problem occurs. We have tried setting the Google Drive folder to show hidden content (as per one of the internet suggestions). How can I stop this from happening? My friend and I are becoming very irate, though would like to keep the other benefits of Google Apps (Google Sheets, 3rd party apps, etc). We know the overall sync will take days to complete.ĭoes that mean synchronising has stopped? It is still busy doing the first major sync of all the files we put in there (12GB's on a 1MB line), but it disappears every hour or so.

The Google Drive system tray icon keeps disappearing. How to fix Google Drive Tray IconI encountered a problem today, in which I received the notifications for my google drive (aka Backup and Sync) but when I wa. He has the free version of Google Apps for Business (his webmaster had the foresight to sign the domain up in time, but they never set it up back then). I am helping a friend set up Google Drive for his small business. Restart your Mac and see if Google Drive is working normally now.

In that folder, double-click on the Google Drive script to run it. Select Show Package Contents and then go to Contents > macOS. Please help! Searched the internet, and could not find reliable results. Find the Google Drive icon, select it, and right-click it.

Google drive icon not in system tray