How to update the password in Google Drive Desktop after I have changed it

Mac Users: Placing the Google Drive icon in the trash was insufficient. I had to locate in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Drive and drag that to trash, then Empty Trash. I then re-installed Google Drive and it walked me through as a brand new account enabling me to sign in with appropriate Gmail account. I had saved all the Google Drive original files onto a desktop, deleted the files from the web Gmail Drive then re-synced by dragging the desktop file onto the newly created Google Drive on my computer. Back to re-synced files.

You can use PowerShell as a startup script to identify the newest created GoogleDriveFS.exe file from within the \Drive File Stream and all beneath sub-folders recursively, and then use its full path to create (or replace) a shortcut .lnk file on the public desktop folder, or wherever is most appropriate for you.

Just use Task Scheduler or Group Policy to run the below logic as a Computer startup script. If using Task Scheduler, be sure to make the task run under the SYSTEM account for security.

PowerShell (version 3+)

$Src = "C:\Program Files\Google\Drive File Stream";
$Lnk = (Get-Childitem -Path $Src -Include "GoogleDriveFS.exe" -File -Recurse | % {"$($_.CreationTime), $($_.FullName)"}) | Sort-Object -Descending | Select -First 1 | %{$_.Split(",")[1].Trim()};
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" -Name "GoogleDrive.lnk" -Value $Lnk -Force;

PowerShell (version 2+)

$Src = "C:\Program Files\Google\Drive File Stream";
$Lnk = (Get-Childitem -Path $Src -Include "GoogleDriveFS.exe" -Recurse | % {"$($_.CreationTime), $($_.FullName)"}) | Sort-Object -Descending | Select -First 1 | %{$_.Split(",")[1].Trim()};
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" -Name "GoogleDrive.lnk" -Value $Lnk -Force;

Supporting Resources

• Get-ChildItem
• ForEach-Object

  Standard Aliases for Foreach-Object: the '%' symbol, ForEach

• Sort-Object
• Split()
• Trim()
• New-Item