diff --git a/.changeset/googledrive-root-browse.md b/.changeset/googledrive-root-browse.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d92f99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/googledrive-root-browse.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@churchapps/content-providers": patch
+---
+
+Fix Google Drive browsing returning an empty list: the file query no longer combines `includeItemsFromAllDrives` with a `root` parent lookup, which Google rejected, and failed API requests now log the response body (ChurchAppsSupport #944).
diff --git a/content-providers/src/helpers/ApiHelper.ts b/content-providers/src/helpers/ApiHelper.ts
index ef1e8be..31f846d 100644
--- a/content-providers/src/helpers/ApiHelper.ts
+++ b/content-providers/src/helpers/ApiHelper.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ export class ApiHelper {
       const response = await fetch(url, options);
 
       if (!response.ok) {
-        console.warn(`[${providerId}] apiRequest failed: ${method} ${url} → HTTP ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`);
+        // Body carries the provider's actual reason (bad param, expired token); truncate so a long HTML error page doesn't flood the log
+        const detail = await response.text().catch(() => "");
+        console.warn(`[${providerId}] apiRequest failed: ${method} ${url} → HTTP ${response.status} ${response.statusText}${detail ? ` ${detail.slice(0, 500)}` : ""}`);
         return null;
       }
       return await response.json();
diff --git a/content-providers/src/providers/googledrive/GoogleDriveProvider.ts b/content-providers/src/providers/googledrive/GoogleDriveProvider.ts
index 077c0dd..1569c50 100644
--- a/content-providers/src/providers/googledrive/GoogleDriveProvider.ts
+++ b/content-providers/src/providers/googledrive/GoogleDriveProvider.ts
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ export class GoogleDriveProvider extends BaseProvider {
         orderBy: "folder,name_natural",
         pageSize: "1000",
         supportsAllDrives: "true",
-        includeItemsFromAllDrives: "true"
+        // corpora=user (not includeItemsFromAllDrives) — "root" is only meaningful in the user's own corpus, and
+        // combining it with an all-drives search makes Google reject the query, which browse saw as an empty folder.
+        corpora: "user"
       });
       if (pageToken) params.set("pageToken", pageToken);
       const response = await this.apiRequest<DriveFileListResponse>(`/files?${params.toString()}`, auth);
diff --git a/content-providers/tests/googleDriveProvider.test.ts b/content-providers/tests/googleDriveProvider.test.ts
index 6b1f364..c8066e3 100644
--- a/content-providers/tests/googleDriveProvider.test.ts
+++ b/content-providers/tests/googleDriveProvider.test.ts
@@ -70,7 +70,13 @@ test("browse treats empty path as root and rejects malformed folder ids without
   const restore = mockFetch((url) => { requests.push(url); return { files: [] }; });
   try {
     await new GoogleDriveProvider().browse(null, auth);
-    assert.ok(new URL(requests[0]).searchParams.get("q")?.includes("'root' in parents"));
+    const params = new URL(requests[0]).searchParams;
+    assert.ok(params.get("q")?.includes("'root' in parents"));
+    // "root" only resolves within the user's own corpus; includeItemsFromAllDrives makes Google reject the query
+    assert.equal(params.get("supportsAllDrives"), "true");
+    assert.equal(params.get("corpora"), "user");
+    assert.equal(params.get("includeItemsFromAllDrives"), null);
+    assert.equal(params.get("orderBy"), "folder,name_natural");
 
     requests.length = 0;
     const items = await new GoogleDriveProvider().browse("/x' or 'a", auth);
@@ -81,6 +87,21 @@ test("browse treats empty path as root and rejects malformed folder ids without
   }
 });
 
+test("browse returns an empty list when Drive rejects the request", async () => {
+  const realFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  globalThis.fetch = (async () => ({
+    ok: false,
+    status: 400,
+    statusText: "Bad Request",
+    text: async () => "{\"error\":{\"message\":\"Invalid Value\"}}"
+  }) as Response) as typeof fetch;
+  try {
+    assert.deepEqual(await new GoogleDriveProvider().browse("/parent1", auth), []);
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = realFetch;
+  }
+});
+
 test("getPlaylist returns media files for a folder and null at root or when empty", async () => {
   const restore = mockFetch(() => listing);
   try {