Google Drive Video Upload Stalls Indefinitely Without Feedback
Google Drive gets stuck in a perpetual "preparing to upload" state for video files, leaving users with no progress indication and no way to complete the upload after multiple days. The lack of an error message or retry mechanism compounds the frustration.
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