How to use Read/Write Files from Disk in n8n v2 i have uploaded my docker compose

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help me my Read/Write Files from Disk is not able to write here my compose.yaml  
services:
  n8n:
    image: hcharsh/n8n-custom
    container_name: n8n
    restart: always
    ports:
      - '5678:5678'
    environment:
      - 'N8N_EDITOR_BASE_URL=${SERVICE_URL_N8N}'
      - 'WEBHOOK_URL=${SERVICE_URL_N8N}'
      - 'N8N_HOST=${SERVICE_URL_N8N}'
      - 'GENERIC_TIMEZONE=${GENERIC_TIMEZONE:-Europe/Berlin}'
      - 'TZ=${TZ:-Europe/Berlin}'
      - DB_TYPE=postgresdb
      - 'DB_POSTGRESDB_DATABASE=${POSTGRES_DB:-n8n}'
      - DB_POSTGRESDB_HOST=postgresql
      - DB_POSTGRESDB_PORT=5432
      - 'DB_POSTGRESDB_USER=${SERVICE_USER_POSTGRES}'
      - DB_POSTGRESDB_SCHEMA=public
      - 'DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD=${SERVICE_PASSWORD_POSTGRES}'
      - 'N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY=${SERVICE_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTION}'
      - N8N_RUNNERS_ENABLED=true
      - N8N_RUNNERS_MODE=external
      - N8N_RUNNERS_BROKER_LISTEN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
      - N8N_RUNNERS_BROKER_PORT=5679
      - 'N8N_RUNNERS_AUTH_TOKEN=${N8N_RUNNER_TOKEN}'
      - N8N_NATIVE_PYTHON_RUNNER=true
      - N8N_ALLOW_EXECUTE_COMMAND=true
      - N8N_ENABLE_NODE_DEV=true
      - N8N_DEFAULT_BINARY_DATA_MODE=filesystem
      - N8N_TRUSTED_PROXIES=true
      - 'NODES_EXCLUDE=[]'
      - N8N_FILESYSTEM_PATH_WHITELIST=/videos
      - N8N_BLOCK_ENV_ACCESS_IN_NODE=false
      - N8N_BLOCK_FILE_ACCESS_TO_N8N_FILES=false
      - N8N_RESTRICT_FILE_ACCESS_TO=
      - N8N_ENFORCE_SETTINGS_FILE_PERMISSIONS=false
    volumes:
      - 'n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n'
      - './videos:/home/node/.n8n-files'
      - '/local-files:/files'
      - './videos:/videos'
    healthcheck:
      test:
        - CMD-SHELL
        - 'wget -qO- http://127.0.0.1:5678/ > /dev/null || exit 1'
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 20s
      retries: 10
    depends_on:
      postgresql:
        condition: service_healthy
  task-runners:
    image: 'hcharsh/n8n-runner-custom:latest'
    container_name: n8n-runners
    restart: always
    environment:
      - 'N8N_RUNNERS_TASK_BROKER_URI=http://n8n:5679'
      - 'N8N_RUNNERS_AUTH_TOKEN=${N8N_RUNNER_TOKEN}'
      - N8N_NATIVE_PYTHON_RUNNER=true
      - 'GENERIC_TIMEZONE=${GENERIC_TIMEZONE:-Europe/Berlin}'
      - 'TZ=${TZ:-Europe/Berlin}'
      - N8N_ALLOW_EXECUTE_COMMAND=true
      - N8N_FILESYSTEM_PATH_WHITELIST=/videos
      - N8N_BLOCK_ENV_ACCESS_IN_NODE=false
      - N8N_RESTRICT_FILE_ACCESS_TO=
      - N8N_BLOCK_FILE_ACCESS_TO_N8N_FILES=false
    volumes:
      - './videos:/home/node/.n8n-files'
    depends_on:
      n8n:
        condition: service_healthy
    healthcheck:
      test:
        - CMD-SHELL
        - 'pgrep -f task-runner > /dev/null || exit 1'
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 5
  postgresql:
    image: 'postgres:16-alpine'
    container_name: n8n-postgres
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - 'postgresql_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data'
    environment:
      - 'POSTGRES_USER=${SERVICE_USER_POSTGRES}'
      - 'POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${SERVICE_PASSWORD_POSTGRES}'
      - 'POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB:-n8n}'
    healthcheck:
      test:
        - CMD-SHELL
        - 'pg_isready -U $${POSTGRES_USER} -d $${POSTGRES_DB}'
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 20s
      retries: 10
volumes:
  n8n_data:
    external: true
  postgresql_data: null

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Hi @Harsh_Chaudhary, welcome!

That’s not a valid environment variable!

use this instead:

N8N_RESTRICT_FILE_ACCESS_TO=/videos

Then when writing the File Path and Name, use it like this:

/videos/you_file_name.mp4