Google Docs and Drive went down for some people on Wednesday

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November 15, 2017 9:21 PM

Google Drive was inaccessible to some users on Wednesday. Google is aware and found a fix about an hour later, and the program now appears to be working again.

Google Drive and Google Docs weren't working properly for some people on Wednesday afternoon.
Many people trying to access Google Drive and Docs were met with an error page.

Both Google Drive and Google Docs went down on Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple reports on Twitter from people trying to access the services.

Many people attempting to reach Google Drive were met with an error page, citing error "502," as of around 4pm ET on Wednesday. Business Insider tried to access Google Drive from both its New York and San Francisco offices and were met with the same error page for nearly an hour.

Google's G Suite Dashboard, which keeps track of any issues or outages across its various products, wasn't showing any issues for Drive as of 4pm ET, but it did acknowledge a "problem with Google Doc's affecting a significant subset of users."

As of 5:30pm ET, the company resolved the issue with Google Docs and Google Drive appears to coming back online for users as well.

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