This is a known limitation of the way n8n handles files by default. As @Jon suggested, changing the binary data mode to the filesystem should do the trick.
Yes, that will currently not be possible with n8n. The reason is the design. It was simply never written to handle huge files. That is maybe something that will change in the future but that would require a bigger refactor.
Technical explanation. All data in n8n gets saved as JSON. All binary data gets converted to base64 and so also saved as a string. The maximum size of a string in Node.js is 1GB. Considering that base64 increases the file size, does it mean that the maximum file size n8n can…