How to stop Google Drive creating desktop.ini files

Question

I'm doing a school coding project using Android Studio with Google Drive to store my app files. Google Drive is generating these desktop.ini files. Every time I delete or modify them, they are regenerated, even when I shut down Google Drive. How can I fix this? I cannot run or debug my project with this error.

Answer 1

As a matter of fact the desktop.ini file is created only in Google Drive folder. So you can't blame it on Windows. If it is Windows, then the file should be everywhere. Also, if you open the desktop.ini in Notepad you will see the following lines:

[.ShellClassInfo]
InfoTip=This folder is shared online.
IconFile=C:\Program Files\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe
IconIndex=16

See InfoTip and IconFile. There is no way Windows would be doing this.