ERROR: Cannot create a string longer than 0x3fffffe7 characters

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Hi. Thanks for the link.

But where/how to fix it in n8n config?

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We recently introduced a new binary data mode which got created by @kik00. It no longer saves the binary data in the database as base64 encoded string, rather as files on the disk. You can give that a try.
It can activated by setting the environment variable:

N8N_DEFAULT_BINARY_DATA_MODE=filesystem
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Thanks for this info!

It does help, to quite an extent (in e.g. HTTP/Google Drive nodes).
In some cases, still facing issues (in e.g. Compress/Decompress node).

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@jan
Could you also tell how to now access the raw binary data in Function node?

Earlier, we used to be able to just access $binary.data.data or items[0].binary.data.data. But these options aren’t available now, apparently.

I do see an id in the data property but not the full local path of the file.

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It can now be accessed via:

await this.helpers.getBinaryDataBuffer(itemIndex, binaryPropertyName)
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Hello everyone, I am jumping into this topic cause I am occurring the same error.
I am running the local version with npm.
My question is How can I edit the local file for fix this error?
thanks!

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Hi @Gabriele_Bracciali, I am very sorry you’re having trouble :frowning:

Quite a bit of time has passed since this topic was last touched and it’s not fully clear to me what exactly you’re trying to change unfortunately. Perhaps you can open a new topic and provide all information required to understand and reproduce the problem you are currently seeing?

Thank you!

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This was also added to another post so I have been working on it there, Will close this topic for now.

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