OK, I thought this would be very simple. But - it is elusive. I want a simple form to select a local file and upload it to an s3 bucket. I have the bucket setup - but I cannot figure out how to connect it to the local file path. When you use the form for selecting a file, it seems to upload it to…

OK, I’m curious too about the issue, so here is a workflow to upload file(s) via a form to Google Drive: so what is the problem now :smiley: ?

This is not possible as there is no way in this scenario to skip n8n server. Same is true for any server which is not s3 or Google Drive own interfaces exposed to the users. Actually, aws and Google Drive web interfaces are not direct access to the underlying stores, the web servers do some backgrou…

Yes I have s3 and gDrive nodes setup properly with credentials. I have workflows that can move files between them. The Question is about a LOCAL file UPLOAD. I can even download files from these. Upload is the question. Other templates I have looked at no longer work. They are old and use node “get …

Did you try n8n Form Trigger node documentation | n8n Docs and then use S3 or GDrive node to put the file on the store? I am not sure I quite follow. What workflow do you have and what works not as expected?

Yes of course I have done this, I have created quite a few form based projects. Please create a very simple workflow to upload a local file to a gDrive account and post it. It should be 2 or 3 nodes.

Is it a test of sorts? :slightly_smiling_face: Exactly two nodes to get a file from user and upload it to gDrive into a specific folder. What is your point?

Kudos for covering a broader use case

Thank you so much! @mohamed3nan . You recognized the elusive piece! The Split out and binary part. This was exactly what I was missing. This works perfectly and I will be testing this with some more complicated projects now. Thanks again, I hope this helps others.

@mohamed3nan Ahh now another issue - after doing testing this will fail on any file larger than 200MB. Any ideas? Should I post another question? (I have my env set to filesystem already BTW) The operation says complete- but the gDrive node never activates - and I have no errors in logs.

I’m not really sure tbh, [image] N8N Webhook Upload limit when using Form-Data Questions n8n uses formidable to parse form-data payloads, which defaults to 200MiB for max file size. The 210MB file that’s working for you is about 200MB. This will be addressed here . Once …

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stevespaw April 4, 2025, 3:25pm 13

Thanks for the reply and link. My use case will likely have files that are 3-4GB. (video files)

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