Add config section to settings to add/remove cloud drives

[yurnasg]

What's the Problem?

With the new Google Drive for Windows, cloud drives are also shown as external drives in Windows. It would be nice to automatically hide from the units section.

Solution/Idea

Hide the drive when it's recognized as a network drive

Alternatives

We can have an advanced option where we can mark drives we don't want to appear. If automatic detection is not possible, the user would do this manually.

Priorities

Capability	Priority
This proposal will allow developers to accomplish W	Must
This proposal will allow end users to accomplish X	Should
This proposal will allow developers to accomplish Y	Could
This proposal will allow end users to accomplish Z	Won't

Files Version

Versão: 2.0.34.0

Windows Version

Windows 10 21H1 19043.1288

Additional comment

No response

[gave92]

Thanks for the report. Could you post a screenshot of the Files sidebar showing the cloud and the drives sections?

[wasi-master]

Not the original author of the issue but since I have the same setup I'll post my screenshots

Although the files sidebar does not show google drive for me for some reason. But it does show for the author as stated in the issue
Files sidebar (not) showing the cloud (maybe because of #6321):

Drives sections (Notice the last Google Drive (O:)):

Notes

The O drive letter is configured by me in the settings of Google Drive for Windows, the default drive letter is G

[yurnasg]

Not the original author of the issue but since I have the same setup I'll post my screenshots

Although the files sidebar does not show google drive for me for some reason. But it does show for the author as stated in the issue Files sidebar (not) showing the cloud (maybe because of #6321):

Drives sections (Notice the last Google Drive (O:)):

Notes

The O drive letter is configured by me in the settings of Google Drive for Windows, the default drive letter is G

I have 4 Google Drive accounts on my computer, so I have 4 fixed drives on my computer. But out of 4, 1 is in stream mode, while 3 is in mirror mode (the files are in a folder on my PC, with offline copy of the files). These 3 mirror mode accounts are listed on the cloud unit. This answers why in wasi-master is not being displayed.

[wasi-master]

@yurnasg Well mine are also in mirror mode

And they show up in the file explorer as actual folders too

I currently don't really need it that much so I did not open a new issue yet. Thanks anyways

[Josh65-2201]

It's possible to hide the drive using external tools like Win Aero (https://winaero.com/hide-drive-windows-10-file-explorer/) and for me it will still show the folder location in the cloud section of the sidebar

[yurnasg]

It's possible to hide the drive using external tools like Win Aero (https://winaero.com/hide-drive-windows-10-file-explorer/) and for me it will still show the folder location in the cloud section of the sidebar

From what I've read, just one change in the registry is enough, this solves half of the problems and could still be an interesting function for the future of the app, what do you think?

[wasi-master]

I think this would be a nice thing to have

[yurnasg]

I think this would be a nice thing to have

I also think. Now we just think a little about how to solve this problem with Google Drive LOL