Google Drive Trigger won’t fire on “File Updated”

Hi everyone,
I have a workflow that should start when any file in Folder is updated, polling Every Minute. Other Google Drive nodes work with the same credentials, but the Google Drive Trigger never runs.

Env: OAuth2 creds with full-drive scope.

Steps tried: re-auth creds, switched to “File Created”, no luck, no errors in logs.

Any known issues or work-arounds?

Screenshots attached.

Thanks!


Hi, If the trigger is ran manually does it return the file that was updated?

yes it does

I see, are you self hosting ore on n8n cloud?

n8n cloud.

I feel like the most self explantory reason is that your workflow isn’t actually activated ore there is a possible bug. Are you running the newest version of n8n?

Also could you recreate the workflow from scratch in a new workflow. Without copying, and then activating it.

Yes I’m running the latest stable version 1.93.0 and the flow is active

I recreated the flow but it still doesn’t work. I also removed the "Loop Over Items” node, restarted the workspace, and recreated the credentials, still no luck. However if I click "Execute Workflow” it works

I’ve realized that when I drag and drop files from the parent folder into the target folder (which is what I need) the trigger doesn’t execute. However if I create a file directly inside the target folder, the trigger fires. How can I make the trigger work when I drag and drop files into the folder?

@ria could you shed some light on this?

i am facing the same issue - anyone from the n8n team can help? thanks!