Google Drive Viewer URLs now give Google Drive Error

Question

Starting today I'm getting "Google Drive has encountered an error" when users follow the urls we present to preview documents stored on Google Drive. Files are typically Excel and Word. The same links have worked for months and months.

If I try going to the Google Drive web app select the relevant docs and right click, "Open With > Google Drive Viewer" I get the same error page.

Has something changed/broken?

Answer 1

Edit: This issue has now been fixed.

This is a bug with the Google Drive Viewer that is affecting all files uploaded through the Drive API. The engineering team has been alerted to the problem.

Answer 2

It looks Google engineers have resolved the issue with the Google Drive Viewer. Files I've upload via the Drive SDK are now correctly showing in the Viewer. Thanks for following up on this, Eric!