I posed this question on the Google Drive forum, but there may be people here who have some insights on this problem.

I use Google Photos and Google Drive.

I'll have a group of photos/videos in Google Photos that I would like to use in my PowerDirector. I could download those files to a folder on my computer and access them in that folder. But I have three computers and would like to have those photos/videos, and the resulting video product, available to all three computers.

Sync'ing is the way, I thought. I could put all the raw files and product files in a sync'd Google folder, and access those directly with any of my three computers, I thought.

There is a problem, though.

The problem is that PowerDirector 15 apparentely has major problems with a sync'd folder. It cannot save to the sync'd folder or open from the sync'd folder. I get the spinning thingy continuously. There must be some read/write privilege on that folder that it doesn't understand.

Anyone have the same problem ? Any workaround ? If I could manually sync the folder instead of automatically syncing, that probably would help. But then, is there a way to manually sync a Google folder ?

Or another solution altogether ?

Thanks,

Clark