cryptomator / cryptomator/android

Cannot add or create a vault using Google's "Computers" location

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### Summary

Cannot add or create a vault using Google's "Computers" location

### System Setup

```markdown
- Android: x
- Cryptomator: x
```

### Cloud Type

Google Drive

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Google drive client on the PC
2. Create a vault inside the `Computers` location using the PC
3. Try to add this vault using the Android app

### Expected Behavior

Vault can be added

### Actual Behavior

Folder of the vault isn't found

### Reproducibility

Always

### Relevant Log Output

_No response_

### Anything else?

It is interesting that when I don't specify any query parameters while executing the list method against the Google cloud, I get the results from the "Computers" locations too but the problem is, that there isn't a method to know if this is a folder you named "Computers" or it is this Google drive location. There are a lot of requests in this direction in Googles bug tracker like e.g. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/172775993 or https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/67360473 but I don't think that there is a possibility to implement this without the help of Google...they need to provide an interface to query this folder like they do with `Shared drives` :confused:. We need the ID of this folder to implement something similar to the `Shared drives` workaround, see https://github.com/cryptomator/android/issues/354

### Workaround

You can add a shortcut to "My Drive", then the "Computers" location can be accessed. See [How to access shared vaults in Google Drive](https://community.cryptomator.org/t/how-to-access-shared-vaults-in-google-drive/9432) for further information.

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