I have a Google Drive trigger using the Google Drive OAuth2 API connection.
I set the trigger to poll every minute, configured as:
Trigger Type: Changes involving a specific folder
Folder: Selected from the list (e.g., MyDriveFolder)
Watch for: File created
Options: None
When I run the flow manually, it works correctly — the file I drop into the folder is detected and processed.
The Problem
When I set my workflow to Active (ready for production) and drop a file into the folder, nothing happens.
The file should be picked up and moved to another folder, but it isn’t. I also don’t see any activity in the Executions tab.
It behaves as if the workflow is inactive, even though I can see the Active tag turned on and green.
I also tried adding a second trigger for File Updated, hoping that would help, but it still doesn’t detect any files.
Question
Is this a bug in n8n?
I’ve seen a few posts mentioning that this trigger doesn’t always work as expected.
I’m using n8n Cloud, version 1.114.4.
Can someone confirm if this is a known issue?
Guess what, it works. The issue is when you copy from one google folder to another folder the trigger will not fire for some reason. For the trigger to fire correctly you have to upload the file to the folder. If you need to support moving files to folders then you would need a workaround.
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