By default, Google Drive localized name will be the same as default. For example, on my laptop which has Windows-中文, Google Drive shows “我的云端硬盘”. This created some errors for the file path in RStudio.

Here is how I changed it to English. The source is from Google help page: English, 中文. I only did on the Windows machine.

  1. Open regedit.
  2. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\DriveFS
  3. Create DWORD DisableLocalizedVirtualFolders.
  4. Change the value to 1.

Restart the Google Drive for desktop software. It now shows “My Drive”. Job done!