Oct 04, 2016 The browser version of Google Drive is great because it allows you to access all of your important files on any device. On the other hand, the desktop version of. Mar 9, 2018 - You can access your Google Drive files by going to www.usc.edu/google from a web browser or through desktop (Windows and Mac OS X).
Here's how you fix this. Close all open apps except for Finder.
You can Command+tab to cycle through them. Use Command+q to quit each one. Once you are sitting at your desktop with Finder having focus on the top menu bar, go to View Clean up. Voila, they should return. Apple REALLY needs to fix this problem.
Any time you move your icons around on the external monitor, they seem to 'stick' to that monitor and when you unplug your laptop from the external monitor, they don't automatically move back to where they were previously located on the laptop screen. It's been a problem ever since OSX came out. Apple knows about it, but apparently don't care enough to fix. Welcome to Apple - think different. Me too I had this problem twice now. The first time I restarted and everything appeared again as it should but re-aligned to the right, not in my customized pattern.
They disappeared again, this time I relaunched Finder and everything came back as they should in their customized places. I went back and renamed my computer in the shared section underneath system preferences. In my name, so I am hoping this doesn't happen again after the renaming. If it does I'll let you all know. I'm currently running 10.5.7 on a MBP. This worked for me. Had this problem-desktop unresponsive, no context menus, icons disappeared, etc -to be completely honest this happened hours after installing Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro AND, I'm sure not coincidentally, uninstalling Path Finder.
I tried everything on this and other forums and nothing worked. Tried editing Finder Plists, nothing worked, but. Go to user/library/preferences/ and 2. Remove (move/delete/whatever-I originally just moved them but they are not needed so ended up deleting) these two files: com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.FolderActions.plist 3. Force quit to relaunch Finder. Everything back to normal (in my case).
Good luck, hope it works for you, this was driving me crazy.
It already tries to auto-update, but it fails. This bug has existed since at least version 1.20. The symptom is that when a new version comes out, Google drive will try to auto-update, but the only result is that your Mac will defocus from whatever application you are using at the time. It can steal focus even in the middle of active use (say, typing in another application). At that time, if you quickly look at the menu bar icon, it will be pulsing.
There are numerous places online where complaints have been made about this. However, they mostly center on the focus-stealing, as the victims are usually unaware that there is a new version. The victims are often told to re-install, which of course removes the symptom, but does not fix the underlying problem.