This morning, however, Google Drive appears once more on my Chromebook Pixel. Still nothing.Īfter a bit of investigation, I found a thread in the official Chromebook Community in Google Groups, with people reporting that multiple devices are affected, including the Samsung Series 5 and the HP Chromebook 14. I tried everything I could think of to get them back: I restarted, I ensured that Google Drive was enabled on the device, I downgraded from the beta to the stable channel, and after none of that worked, I performed a full system restore in recovery (luckily, that only takes about fifteen minutes in Chrome OS). So why weren’t they showing up in the Files app? You can imagine the terror I initially felt, which was soon quelled when I navigated to the Google Drive web interface in the Chrome browser and confirmed that all my files were safe and sound. Normally, Google Drive appears in the Files app as if all of those files are stored locally – its tight integration with the local storage in Chrome OS is what ultimately convinced me to move all of my files to the cloud and truly embrace cloud computing. A strange thing happened to me last night: As I was getting some work done on my Chromebook Pixel, I noticed that all of my Google Drive files were missing in my Chromebook’s built-in file manager.

My google drive icon disappeared