How to make the video play in Google Drive again
(Computer)
Sometimes you may experience when you click on a video link that Google Drive gives you a message that says "The video is currently unplayable because too many people have watched the link". To solve that problem I show you step by step with pictures of how to make the video playable again.
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Note: If you don't want to do this way you can also try and wait for 24 hours and see if the video starts to works again by itself. It should be but there is always a possibility that it stops to work again in the future.
1. Sign in with your Google account (Gmail) on the Google Drive site with the non-playable video. If you don't have a Google account already, make one.
2. Here is how the site looks when you sign in with you Google account
3. When signed in, click on the Google Drive symbol that is marked in the picture.
4. Choose "My Drive" and then "add shortcut". (Note that the words are now in Swedish but you can still understand where you should click).
5. Then go to your own Google Drive and you will see the video you added there on "My Drive".
6. Mark the video and click on the three dots you can see right next to the trashcan. Then at the very bottom of the window that appears you will find "copy", which you will click on.
7. Now a copy of the video should appear on your screen right next to the original video.
8. The copy of the video could take some time to process if you receive the message "We are currently processing this video. Come back later or download the video now", so have some patience and wait until it's ready, how long it will take depends on the size of the video. But when it's finally ready to be played you can watch and download it even if the original video doesn't work!
Hope this step by step tutorial worked out for you and if you receive any problems send me a message on Instagram and I will help you as soon as possible.
If you want to see how to make the video play on your phone/computer without the audio disappearing for example then go the section "Download videos" in the Help section.