hey pipeline,
I went through this a while back (but on OS X) using this post on Google Community to make it work. I also signed off before doing it and back in when it was time, just really as a holdover from a previous suggestion that didn't entirely work, and it did take, without recreating the folder again in its original assumed place.
I find pretty good advice on this kind of thing on the Community forum, never from Google, er Alphabet itself
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"1. Quit Backup & Sync
2. Copied Google Drive folder from user folder on C: drive to my usb drive
3. Deleted Google Drive in the user folder
4. Reopened Backup & Sync which complained about missing folder and then clicked on 'Locate" and pointed to Google Drive folder which is now located on the usb drive.
5. Had to repeat step 4 for the usb location to be accepted.
It's now working fine and has NOT re-created a Google Drive folder in the user folder on the C: drive "
https://support.google.com/drive/thr...computer?hl=en