TTF Font Won't Install In Google Drive Directory

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Well, here's a crazy one for you...

I noticed that I was unable to install fonts that had synced via Google Drive. The fonts were in zip files, and at first I thought the problem was that they'd become corrupted -- which had me extremely concerned.

After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the font will install fine so long as I move it out of the Google Drive directory structure (desktop, downloads, etc). I also md5'd the file to make sure that they were identical (they were, which alleviated my fear that GD was somehow corrupting the file).

For the record, I noticed this on Windows 8.1.

Quitting Google Drive didn't seem to resolve the issue, which surprised me.

Incorrect Behavior:

 When double-clicking on a TTF file or context-clicking > install, the font viewer appears and install seems to happen successfully. The installing dialog disappears very quickly, and the entire font viewer follows it. The font is not installed.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Attempt to install a TTF file in Google Drive folder hierarchy.
  2. Drag the TTF file to a folder outside of the Google Drive folder hierarchy. Verify that it installs normally.
  3. Validate that the files are identical with an md5. 
If you're able to reproduce this as well, please mention it in the comments. Maybe this is really isolated, but I've encountered it on two laptops.

It's an annoyance and not a deal-breaker, but it would be nice not to need these little workarounds for things!

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