rclone: googleapi: Error 403: Only files with binary content can be downloaded
What is the problem you are having with rclone?
Within last 24 hours, a cronjob that runs rclone started returning the following error for some files:
2021/07/09 17:09:10 ERROR : XXX: Failed to copy: failed to open source object: open file failed: googleapi: Error 403: Only files with binary content can be downloaded. Use Export with Docs Editors files., fileNotDownloadable
The file itself is not new; it has been on the Drive for quite some time.
What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
$ rclone version
rclone v1.55.1-DEV
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.16.5
- go/linking: dynamic
- go/tags: cmount
Which OS you are using and how many bits (e.g. Windows 7, 64 bit)
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
$ uname -a
Linux debian 4.19.0-16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Which cloud storage system are you using? (e.g. Google Drive)
Google Drive.
The command you were trying to run (e.g. rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
rclone sync --exclude /XXX/ googledrive: /path/to/google_drive/
A log from the command with the -vv flag (e.g. output from rclone -vv copy /tmp remote:tmp)
I will dump, redact and provide it later if necessary.
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About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Reactions: 4
- Comments: 26 (3 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- drive: fix some google docs being treated as files - fixes #5455 At some point some google docs files started having sizes returned in their listing information. This then caused rclone to treat the... — committed to rclone/rclone by ncw 3 years ago
- Bump Dockerfile to get newer version of rclone We were seeing errors from the `rclone sync` command in local-image/home/backup.sh which I strongly suspect relate to this bug in rclone [1]. It looks a... — committed to freerange/google-drive-backup by floehopper 2 years ago
Thanks for testing @Nicuz.
I’ve merged this to master now which means it will be in the latest beta in 15-30 minutes and released in v1.56 which should be very soon.
Thanks @hoxu that JSON dump was exactly what I needed.
The problem is that this object is reporting a size
But rclone assumes anything with a size or an md5 checksum is a file, not a google doc
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/c0b2832509c8c1678de4982e4a91ce691091c078/backend/drive/drive.go#L1324-L1327
So this has changed for some reason.
If I check out the docs I see this
I am pretty sure that
sizedidn’t used to be applicable to google docs files.Anyway here is a potential fix - can anyone having this problem give it a go please?
v1.56.0-beta.5586.c4aabaf49.fix-5455-drive-docs on branch fix-5455-drive-docs (uploaded in 15-30 mins)
Same issue here, some selected gSheets giving the reported error. Looking at similar files, I’ve noted that the erratic one has a size value (like 50K).
Workaround Just make a copy of the gSheet on gDrive. The new copy doesn’t have size allocated and works flawlessly with
rclone.Hope it helps.
For the sake of completeness: I tested with https://beta.rclone.org/rclone-beta-latest-linux-amd64.zip
Problem fixed. Thanks for the swift fix @ncw!
@ncw Thank you! I must say I’m impressed by the speed with which this was addressed, and the cooperation of everyone!