Google Drive error: "Sorry, upload of the file failed"
Symptoms: Google Drive persists in giving the error "Sorry, upload of the file failed". This occurs when using drag-and-drop or the "upload" button in the browser. Errors occur regardless of file size. A good test is to try and upload a tiny text file, to ensure bandwidth or other issues are not the problem. Re-enabling Java in the browser does not help. More info: Google help had nothing on this error message, and as far as I could see, nobody else had reported this exact problem. I'm guessing people who access Drive via their browser are in the minority. I could not use the PC Drive interface in this instance since I was uploading video files that I did not want mirrored to my PC SSD. Solution: You're probably using an older browser. It may have worked fine in the past, but Google is presumably always tweaking / upgrading the Drive interface. I have stuck with Firefox 14.0.1 up until July 2014 because I knew it and t...