Enable Spotlight Indexing for Google Drive on Mac

Google’s official client for Mac OS, “Backup and Sync,” is no more. It has been replaced by “Google Drive” now. One problem is that the new approach exposes files as a Network Drive, which Spotlight does not index. So, you can no longer search for Google Drive files via Spotlight unless you re-enable the indexing.

After trying several non-working solutions, I found one that enables indexing on Google Drive.

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# Enable Google Drive indexing and wait for a few minutes for the files to be indexed
$ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/GoogleDrive/
# Confirm that indexing is enabled
$ sudo mdutil -a -i on