Simply double-click on the google_drive.alfredworkflow file, and add it to Alfred. It is not a workaround, it is a native solution. And there is a workflow for google drive search. )īUT Alfred, fortunately, can do a lot with workflows. ( You can index a mounted network drive on the local network, but I only now a temporary solution. And even if you mount google drive with CloudMounter or Mountainduck etc. But I have found - and Oh man I've tried - that Spotlight is very unreliable working with network drives. To use workflows you need the Powerpack option which is not-free-of-charge (Alfred is), but I highly recommend this on time purchase.Īlfred uses the Spotlight index database to execute document searches. There are really good tutorials for it, at the developers' website, and the learning curve is very shallow. Without going into much detail it works basically as Spotlight: after a keyboard stroke you get a rectangle in the middle of the screen, where you can type your search query, and you get answers (much faster than Spotlight). If you are willing to try a Spotlight alternative, namely Alfred, you are good to go.Īlfred is technically a launcher/file-searcher, but it is capable of much more thanks to workflows. I haven't tried the most recent version (which is from 2013), and the reviews on are mixed about its current functionality, but it might be worth a try. There is also an app called Found that is able to search Google Drive, but that company was purchased and the app is no longer being developed. One non-spotlight alternative is to use the app Alfred to search:Īll this really is is a shortcut to open your google drive in a web browser and initiate a search- not really what you (or I) want. As you noted Precipitate provided that functionality, but it doesn't work any more and it's no longer developed. The idea that I could use Spotlight to search through all of the files that I created online is really great, but it appears that Google Drive isn't downloading the content of the files, so there is nothing for Spotlight to index. Since the content of the document isn't in the file that's on my computer, there's nothing for Spotlight to index. The actual content of the google document is not in the file that's on my computer. However if I take that file and open it in a text editor, I can see that the only content in the file is a link to the online file and some other information.
Users/myname/Google Drive/filename.gdoc). a Document) and insert some content (text) in the document, that new file representing that document will show up in my Mac's directory (i.e. For example, if I go to and create a new file (e.g. I don't believe that Spotlight is technically able to index the content inside the Google Drive files, at least not files that were created from within Google Drive's web interface.
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