Use `Shift+Z` to **add** shared fodlers/files to your Google Drive instead of creating a shortcut. `rclone` can not download shortcuts at the moment even though the current beta seems to be able to.
How to set environment variables can be found in the [docs]( https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html#set-env-vars).
And there also seem to be [different ways]( https://stackoverflow.com/a/62508395/991496).