I'm literally screwed and going to lose clients over this mess. And we have about 400 GB across 2 accounts affected by this. How this was not foreseen to be a problem for anyone using Google Drive on a Windows machine is beyond me. (The so-called "shortcuts" added ~84 characters to my file paths, and that doesn't include the folder and file name text!!!) Then if I move a file that has links within it from C:\ to Google Drive afterward for backup/sync, the embedded links are no longer valid anymore. This has caused me over a week's worth of problems and project delays with no end in sight, and the only workaround is to copy files to the C:\ drive and work there to keep path lengths manageable. But the mirror folders created on my D:\ drive still have the huge shortcut paths and seem to just point back to the G:\ drive (formerly the cloud storage locations)? Talk about redundant (useless, and a waste of hundreds of gigabytes of storage space). This would supposedly keep all my files in the cloud and return the file structure locally on my computer.
I even logged on to Admin Console and changed from only streaming files (G:\ drive) to mirror files. It broke links within Excel files (links to other spreadsheets), CAD files, block files within CAD files, even shared folders assigned to our copier, scanners, scan to email, etc. Yes, I started having problems last week when the shortcuts were implemented on my Workspace account and Google Drive.
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