Binary Exersie 2 - System Error?

[Merrick]

Hello,

I’ve been stuck on the Level Two course exercise ‘Binary Exercise 2’. I’ve followed the exercise guideliens closely and even copied the node from the solution, yet I cannot save the JSON file to the /tmp/ directory. It consistantly says that the file is not writeable. Please see the image below:

Please share your workflow

##Here is the relevant node:
{
“parameters”: {
“operation”: “write”,
“fileName”: “/tmp/poetrydb.json”,
“options”: {}
},
“id”: “f2048e5d-fa8f-4708-b15a-d07de359f2e5”,
“name”: “Read/Write Files from Disk”,
“type”: “n8n-nodes-base.readWriteFile”,
“typeVersion”: 1,
“position”: [
1080,
520
]
}

[mohamed3nan]

Hi @Merrick Welcome to n8n community


I’m not entirely sure about the write permissions on cloud-hosted instances, but you can try this path

/home/node/.n8n/poetry.json

[Merrick]

Hi Mohamed,

I’m not sure how you came by that path, but you were right! How did you know that was the path? The one in the guide is not at all similar.

[mohamed3nan]

It’s just the path from my current instance, and I’m pretty sure if you asked the n8n Ask AI, it would tell you the same.

By the way, if your issue is resolved, please mark the reply as the solution