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I noticed that in my Google Drive, some Markdown files are marked with a blue icon and are indexed:
Those with the icon of StackEdit (which is no longer even integrated into my Drive) are not indexed and don't even have the option Open With > Google Docs when I right-click them.
What's different about the files? And how do I "fix" all of them to be blue? Missing indexing on most of my text content is a bit of a pain.
The Upload button is right next to the Create button. It looks like a hard disk drive with an up arrow coming out of it.
There seem to be no way through Google Drive's interface (yet), however for a quick manual way you can use Google OAuth 2.0 Playground to call the Drive APIs List Files service and get the md5Checksum. I needed this to verify that some personal large file I uploaded got there properly, hence the answer is not exactly tailored for development purposes.
Best Answer
If you look at the file details for the blue-icon Markdown files and the non-blue-icon files, they probably have different file types. Below are two
.mdfiles; the first was saved in Windows Notepad and uploaded, and the second was created in Google Docs.It seems like different programs save Markdown files different ways. It may just vary depending on the program.