Bug#991124: googleapi: Error 403: Only files with binary content can be downloaded

[Martin Schwenke]

Package: rclone
Version: 1.53.3-1+b5
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: mar...@meltin.net

Dear Maintainer,

I am using rclone's sync command to maintain a local backup of my
Google Drive. It worked well until a few days ago but recently
syncing certain files has been failing with an error like this:

2021/07/15 08:47:06 ERROR : Attempt 3/3 failed with 1 errors and: 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

This upstream GitHub issue for rclone appears to address the issue:

https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/5455

The same annoying workaround listed in that issue works sometimes for
me but the problem soon returns after files have been modified.

I downloaded the latest rclone beta
(https://beta.rclone.org/rclone-beta-latest-linux-amd64.zip) and it
fixes the issue.

Can you please consider updating to 1.56.0 when it is released (or
backporting the relevant fix)? I think this will be needed for stable
because the Google Drive support is quite broken without this fix.

Thanks...

peace & happiness,
martin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages rclone depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-12

rclone recommends no packages.

rclone suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hi,

I created a salsa PR[1] with the upstream patch. This is also the
patch we are using in Ubuntu.


1. https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/rclone/-/merge_requests/4