Google users throughout the US have been cut off from their private data due to a massive outage affecting server connections.
According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, users of Google Drive currently can’t access their files, with widespread reports of server connection failures and inability to open documents like Google Sheets or Docs.
Users regularly rely on Google Drive for everyday cloud storage, real-time collaboration on work or school projects, and seamless syncing across phones, laptops, and tablets.
‘Please fix Google, people got school and work and they depend on Docs!’ one frustrated user commented Wednesday afternoon.Â
At 1pm ET, there were nearly 3,000 reports of problems using Google Drive, with half of those reports citing the main problem as server connection issues.
More than a third of users were having issues accessing their private files.
‘It says: “Can’t open this file. This file isn’t available without an internet connection,”‘ one person reported while trying to use Google Drive.
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Outage-tracking website Downdetector has logged thousands of cases of Google Drive not working on Wednesday, November 12
