How to fix MacOS Monterey Spotlight not indexing Google Drive files in desktop?

It seems that on Mac, the Spotlight is not indexing the files that are in the Google Drive desktop folder...

Posted on Jan 26, 2022 6:56 PM

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lllaass

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Jan 27, 2022 12:55 AM in response to Jess_diri

See this previous discussion

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253472653

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