Google-drive – How to view a list of comments on a pdf in Google Drive

When I visit drive.google.com in my Android's browser, I'm redirected to drive.google.com/m.

I can follow that URL in my desktop browser and do indeed get the mobile-optimized version of the Google Drive site.

However, as soon as I click on a PDF file, I get the usual desktop PDF viewer. I don't see a way to force the PDF viewer to be a mobile-optimized version.

I would try the following:

1. Create a new folder in your Google Drive to move all your shared items into.
2. Go to "Shared with Me" and add all the shared items from there to the new folder in your drive.
3. Perform an export through Takeout and this should include the new folder you just made with all the shared items you added to it.

When I tested this manually, the shared items added to my drive did show up in the Takeout export.

If this doesn't work or you want to avoid having to add all your "Shared with Me" items to your drive, an alternative solution could be to use the rclone command line tool. Currently, it looks like the beta version of rclone supports accessing items from the "Shared with Me" section of the drive. rclone can then be used to download all these files and also supports downloading Google documents in more portable file formats (rclone defaults to using the docx, xlsx, pptx, and svg formats).

I don't think the existing answer here (which suggests downloading through the web interface) would work because, as mentioned in the question, certain files could hit the max size limit and then fail to download.