n8n 1.77.3 OS X machine Intel local docker and app – I don’t know where to begin (including specs because there’s a variety), I’ve tried everything docker, without docker, reinstalled npm and node twice…I’m just trying to get the general node set to show and AI prompting is sending me around the world and back with zero results.
I’m working local on a OS X machine Intel and I can’t get ‘read files’ or ‘list items’, basic nodes to run a basic OCRMYPDF image process, and that’s apparently not possible? What do I have wrong? Does “read file” and “list items” not exist and two well known prompt engines have it totally wrong? Chat’s put me through Docker security issues and Node.js being to new and mulling over deprecated warnings plus a bunch of other turnarounds.
Can somebody please tell me if this is a ‘thing’ and/or what I’m doing wrong? Been through a dozen Advil just to get two nodes to show up in my interface with no success, and every query/code paste I post for length is just going in circles.
I was able to run an HTTP request, but that’s been it. (because there was a node available)
For what it’s worth, here’s a screengrab of what I mean. ‘Read file’ or ‘list items’ (to my understanding) should show up.
If anybody has any input I’d be grateful, thank you for reading.
You just have to add some kind of trigger first to start the workflow. Then when you add a node, the search will filter the triggers out and show the general nodes.
Hi Hubschrauber, thanks so much for the response. As it turns out I was dealing with AI hallucinations from two different Chats (chatGPT and Google AI) both seeing nodes that weren’t available and using Docker which for whatever reason would not load anything on my machine locally. So over the course of these hours I was just…bahhh. It was bad but through testing alternatives figured out what was possible.
The outcome turned out to be : Folder Trigger > Code > Execute
…placing all the code in the code node and just the command; in the execute node. Compliments to Claude for finally figuring that out final coding arrangement, and to me for realizing that it wouldn’t run using Docker and to get the expression params correct.
Onto using Ansible (VPS/n8n setup AI redundancies are horrendous lol).
