Describe the problem/error/question
I am unable to write file to file share. I keep getting ‘File xxxx is not writable’. I can manually write the file to the disk from the docker container but not from n8n itself.
This was working before n8n update v2+. Are these related?
What is the error message (if any)?
Please share your workflow
The file "/data/thprod_fsshare/C/CULD57/CULD57000009/CULD57000009_20260326_Pre-Renewal_Notification.txt" is not writable.
Share the output returned by the last node
Information on your n8n setup
- n8n version:
- Database (default: SQLite):
- n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
- Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
- Operating system:
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Hi @shreyaslokanath Welcome!
This is expected after version 2.x.x as a change was introduced that if you want to play around and access files, you need to specify them here: N8N_RESTRICT_FILE_ACCESS_TO
Something like:
N8N_RESTRICT_FILE_ACCESS_TO=/data/thprod_fsshare
Just to make sure that path is writable run this as well chown -R 1000:1000 /data/thprod_fsshare
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Hi Anshul,
Thanks for the quick update. Our Infra team has updated the variable and did a n8n restart but there has been no breakthrough.
which is why I created a simple flow with couple of nodes but no luck even then.
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@shreyaslokanath the error says that the file path is note writable, which means n8n cannot write stuff there, consider running the command i have mentioned:
@shreyaslokanath Glad it helped!
