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Google Drive for Desktop has been wrongly managing High-DPI window scaling FOR YEARS.
This is on a 4K display, using 175% scaling, which is not even that high.
When you use the 'Share with Google Drive' context menu command this is the window that shows up:

As you can see, the lower part is cut out of the Window, missing the two MOST IMPORTANT BUTTONS, that you can only access pressing Tab many times until the focus moves over them:

As said, this has been happening FOR MANY YEARS.
Same issue happens with the main window, which opens like this:

But at least 'Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Down' can be used there to scale it down to a proper size, even if the stupid software don't remember the zoom setting and YOU HAVE TO KEEP DOING IT EVERY SINGLE TIME.
BUT this 'Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Down' workaround doesn't work in the 'Share with Google Drive' context menu window.
I keep being asked to 'update' Google Drive like every other week and NOTHING USEFUL IS EVER ADDED. All changes and 'updates' make the software WORSE, starting with 'Google Drive for Desktop' itself being a piece of crap compared to the old 'Google Backup & Sync', which Google had to prevent from using so people would be forced to use this crap nobody wanted instead.
For Christ sake, is it that much to ask for a 2 trillion dollar corporation to fix something so basic after YEARS?
Is there any way at all to fix this stupid issue?
This is on a 4K display, using 175% scaling, which is not even that high.
When you use the 'Share with Google Drive' context menu command this is the window that shows up:

As you can see, the lower part is cut out of the Window, missing the two MOST IMPORTANT BUTTONS, that you can only access pressing Tab many times until the focus moves over them:

As said, this has been happening FOR MANY YEARS.
Same issue happens with the main window, which opens like this:

But at least 'Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Down' can be used there to scale it down to a proper size, even if the stupid software don't remember the zoom setting and YOU HAVE TO KEEP DOING IT EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I keep being asked to 'update' Google Drive like every other week and NOTHING USEFUL IS EVER ADDED. All changes and 'updates' make the software WORSE, starting with 'Google Drive for Desktop' itself being a piece of crap compared to the old 'Google Backup & Sync', which Google had to prevent from using so people would be forced to use this crap nobody wanted instead.
For Christ sake, is it that much to ask for a 2 trillion dollar corporation to fix something so basic after YEARS?

Is there any way at all to fix this stupid issue?
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