Around 14th February 2023 several Google Drive accounts started showing an error of “Upload Failed” for any creation action carried out. (Eg. creating a new empty folder).

I faced the same on my Google Drive account (2 TB). My usage is only 1.62TB of the 2TB, and my Bin is empty.

Saw another post on Reddit mentioning the same, and there was a report created on Google’s issue tracker at the time (link), with the safe assumption that this was a sudden & temporary bug.

There were a few reports of Google Support reps informing people of a 5 million item limit on Google Drive. (Regardless of if you have a 2TB, 5TB or 20TB account).

That might sound high, but up until this issue, I had 7 million files in my Google Drive without any problems at all.

Now