The problem is that on Google forums, Google has locked the threads where people are questioning whether or not the fix works! If you can't discuss it with other people outside of the Google hive mind, how do you know whether it actually works in the wild?

One solution involves a previously unknown hidden menu in the Google desktop app. And initial feedback, before the forums were locked, were not encouraging. Another suggested recover path involved command line invocations, again, not many people reporting success.

And Google has locked the message forums for this. Are they washing their hands of the problem? Which kind of implies they know they have a catastrophic loss problem, meaning no way to recover people's data? This could lead to lawsuits as Google Drive is also sold as a commercial product that businesses rely upon, and it could literally destroy a business if its data is lost!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/google-calls-drive-data-loss-fixed-locks-forum-threads-saying-otherwise/