ERROR: Access to the file is not allowed

[Mulen]

Hello.

We have problem with Read Binary Files node.

In version 1.1.1 it was working fine, now with the latest version we try to read a file and it says:

ERROR: Access to the file is not allowed.

I made changes to file also with chmod 777 and still can not read the file.

The path inside the docker container is

/home/node/.n8n/projects/myproject/attachments/test.txt

I connect inside the docker container of n8n and did a cat file.txt and it shows the content.

What is happening?

Are there any new .env variables with the latest versions?

I saw something like this in github

RESTRICT_FILE_ACCESS_TO
BLOCK_FILE_ACCESS_TO_N8N_FILES

can i disable them?

[Mulen]

I found this variable and set it to false

N8N_BLOCK_FILE_ACCESS_TO_N8N_FILES: false

Please update your documentation with all available .env variables.

[Jon]

Hey @Mulen,

I thought we had documented that but it looks like we missed it for some reason, We don’t recommend storing data in the /home/node/.n8n directory as that that should only be used by the n8n application.

A better solution would be to create another volume in your container to work with data or use /tmp/ if it is temporary data.

I will get the documentation updated shortly.