The moved file will be synced to your local computer. It will be in Computers > My Mac > synced (or something similar to that)

Select the newly created folder as the destination.

Locate the file X, right click, and choose 'Move to'.

Select the newly created folder, synced.

In the 'My Mac Folders from you computer' tab click 'Add folder'.Open Google Drive for Desktop preferences.In the Finder, create a new folder, e.g.If you already have a file, X, in Google Drive that you want to be backed up by Time Machine, use the following steps. Such a folder will be visible to Time Machine. You can set up Drive for Desktop to backup a particular folder on your computer. I found another solution that works if you only care about having Time Machine backup certain files. I had the same question after migrating from Google Backup & Sync to Google Drive for Desktop due to the upcoming deprecation. As such, it seems like one solution would be to use both in parallel but this not particularly appealing. But then the issue is that you cannot access Shared Drives using Backup & Sync (only using Drive File Stream). I have noticed that if you use Google Backup & Sync instead of Drive File Stream you can back this folder up using Time Machine (no compulsory greyed out option). Note: I have only tested that this works in the ~/CustomFolderName/ folder but I assume it works for any other folder than the default. You can do this inside the DFS 'preferences' menu. The only way to force Time Machine to include this cache in the backup is by moving the cache to another location. However, please note that Time Machine also excludes this cache by default. Unfortunately, this cache is not human readable but it can be mounted by Drive File Stream into the human readable offline file structure that you are familiar with seeing (in fact this is exactly what DFS does once you log in). Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS

When you make your files available for offline access, Drive File Stream (DFS) stores a cached version of this data in the following locations: I am facing the same issue and have found a clean (recommended) and a messy solution.

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