Unable to read files from /tmp

Hello. I am self hosting and there is a workflow where we take a file and write it to /tmp so that we can control the file name and save a new file each time we process it with a suffix. At the end of the workflow, we Read File from Disk and try to pull the file in, but there isnt any out or or errors. There is just vast nothingness. I have confirmed that the file exists at the path by navigating through terminal to get there, but it doesn’t seem to be accessible to read the file in n8n even though it is writing to that location initially.

version 1.70.3

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Hi @matthewmathis

Welcome to the community! Are you using docker? you may need to run it via root as mentioned here: n8n v1.0 migration guide | n8n Docs

If not, can you please share a bit more details on this so we can help?

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