It's easy to create Google Drive shortcuts on your Mac desktop

It is easy to save files to your desktop on Mac when you meant to stick them in Google Drive. This trick lets you add shortcuts, also known as aliases, to your Mac desktop to make it easy to save directly into Google Drive.

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[kyletimbaker]

Thank you for making this quick and simple! As an IT Professional and Windows power user, it is frustrating to be stumped by such simple tasks on a Mac. I couldn't figure out how to make a shortcut to the folder on my pCloud. Thank you!

[aavil]

I can't figure out why, but when I use make alias, it doesn't automatically put it on my desktop. It duplicates the folder with the little black arrow within my google drive folder. If I try to drag and drop it to my desktop, it moves the alias out of my drive and puts it on my desktop, no longer linked to google drive shortcut in Finder.

[wadewade]

Google drive is downloaded and active on my Mac, yet doesn’t show up anywhere in finder. It’s driving me batshit crazy.