Exception: Service error: Drive suddenly started happening for Google Drive makeCopy

[Shaun M]

I have a super-simple script that has been working fine for a few months - getting a file by its ID, then copying a version of it to a folder with the date in the new file name:

  var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT", "yyyy-MM-dd");  

  var file = DriveApp.getFileById("[--TheIdOfTheFileIsHere--]");

  var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById("[--TheIdOfTheFolderIsHere--]");

  var newFile = file.makeCopy(date+' File', folder);

A week or two ago it started erroring on every run with the message "Exception: Service error: Drive".

Any idea what it could be? The script hasn't been touched so I thought maybe permissions could have been changed on the file or folder - but even setting them to be least restrictive doesn't help. Has something changed with DriveApp?

Thanks!

[Andrew Roberts]

Which line are you actually getting the error on.

I noticed the same thing on a domain account for the last few days on DriveApp.getFolderById(). I've tried various combinations of user accounts and sharing, but not been able to get around it yet.

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[Andrew Roberts]

Well that's a nasty one!

It looks like since Feb 12th if you have a GCP associated with the project you have to enable the Drive API as both an advanced service and in the console. Fixed it for me.

[Shaun Millis]

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately didn't seem to help with me. I already had the advanced service enabled - I've now created a separate GCP with the Drive API enabled and associated it. I can see the calls going through to the logging there - the drive.files.get are all 0% errors but the drive.files.copy are all 100% errors

I'm not sure if it makes any difference but its version is shown as V2beta. I looked to see if changing it would help - but the config of the service in AppsScript only has 'v2' selectable so not sure if that's something possible to change?