Google Drive - “Forbidden - perhaps check your credentials”

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Describe the problem/error/question

I have an active workflow that copies a template into a specified folder, then pre fills that template in the next step. On the Google Drive node in which I am using the copy operation, sometimes it will just randomly error out saying “Forbidden - perhaps check your credentials”, with no other explanation. Has anyone else seen this behavior? If I were to rerun the workflow it would run fine until it randomly happens again. Any help would be appreciated.

Workflow:
(Disregard the undefined webhook values. Isolated the drive node for demonstration purposes)

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 1.70.4
  • Database (default: SQLite):
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): n8n cloud
  • Operating system: Windows 10
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Keen to find out too. I started to get this for my google drive download node.

To be specific, here’s an error code to it. But it used to work fine few weeks back.
Forbidden - perhaps check your credentials?
Request failed with status code 403.

If I manually enter the ID of the file, it works without any issue.
but if I get the node to automatically identify it using {{$json.id}}, it error out.

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i got same problem, error 403.

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Further narrowed down, this appeared to be a load issue. As if I lower the no of records process by the Google Download node from 13 to 12, it immediately works.
12 records:

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image1857×889 136 KB

13 records

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image1819×849 120 KB

I have did the repeatitive tests, it shows consistency on the above.

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Im not so sure thats the case. My workflow only processes one record per run and I still see the error

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Same issue here! Did anyone manage to resolve it?

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I am also battling with Google Drive Credentials - see my post here

Mine only happens on the Download File request

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I have the same issue when downloading a file from Google Drive API.

“Forbidden - perhaps check your credentials?
Request failed with status code 403”

This workflow used to work perfectly fine until n8n v 1.8.x

Has anyone found a fix?

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Still waiting for someone from n8n to diagnose the issue

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Same here.

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When decoded, the error message given reads like this:

{
  "error": {
    "code": 403,
    "message": "This file is too large to be exported.",
    "errors": [
      {
        "message": "This file is too large to be exported.",
        "domain": "global",
        "reason": "exportSizeLimitExceeded"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Original message:


{ "type": "Buffer", "data": [ 123, 10, 32, 32, 34, 101, 114, 114, 111, 114, 34, 58, 32, 123, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 34, 99, 111, 100, 101, 34, 58, 32, 52, 48, 51, 44, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 34, 109, 101, 115, 115, 97, 103, 101, 34, 58, 32, 34, 84, 104, 105, 115, 32, 102, 105, 108, 101, 32, 105, 115, 32, 116, 111, 111, 32, 108, 97, 114, 103, 101, 32, 116, 111, 32, 98, 101, 32, 101, 120, 112, 111, 114, 116, 101, 100, 46, 34, 44, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 34, 101, 114, 114, 111, 114, 115, 34, 58, 32, 91, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 123, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 34, 109, 101, 115, 115, 97, 103, 101, 34, 58, 32, 34, 84, 104, 105, 115, 32, 102, 105, 108, 101, 32, 105, 115, 32, 116, 111, 111, 32, 108, 97, 114, 103, 101, 32, 116, 111, 32, 98, 101, 32, 101, 120, 112, 111, 114, 116, 101, 100, 46, 34, 44, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 34, 100, 111, 109, 97, 105, 110, 34, 58, 32, 34, 103, 108, 111, 98, 97, 108, 34, 44, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 34, 114, 101, 97, 115, 111, 110, 34, 58, 32, 34, 101, 120, 112, 111, 114, 116, 83, 105, 122, 101, 76, 105, 109, 105, 116, 69, 120, 99, 101, 101, 100, 101, 100, 34, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 125, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 93, 10, 32, 32, 125, 10, 125, 10 ] }