There are two similar questions to this one that I can find: here and here. I am in this situation, and wondering if anything has changed in 9 years: I want one (1) (count 'em one) Google Drive account. I have essentially two Windows (10 or 11) users, one of which is an admin and one not. My ideal situation is to have reliable sync at all times with only one copy of the files on the hard drive.
Currently, there is only one Google Drive client, installed on the Windows admin account, and it points to a folder to which all the Windows users have access (C:\Google Drive). This initially appeared to work fine, but then I noticed that, on bootup, if I don't log into the admin account (which then starts up the Google Drive client), we don't have sync. Indeed, my daughter actually lost work - the only explanation for losing the work I can think of (could be wrong) is that, without the Google Drive client running, it didn't detect the change, so that when it finally did start up, it overwrote her changes with what it thought was the most recent version. This is obviously completely unacceptable.
So my question is this: can I have two Google Drive clients (NOT accounts!) running on two different Windows user accounts on the same machine, pointing to the same folder, and syncing the same (singular) Google Drive account? This would be somewhat preferable to duplicating the entire Google Drive contents for each user, which, while I'm fairly confident would work, would also seem to be a waste. I'll certainly do that if I have to, though.
I have a paid copy of Insync, so solutions involving Insync are perfectly fine.