Bug Description

When trying to download a newly created document using the Google Drive node, the node runs successfully but the document is not downloaded

<img width="821" height="576" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/216427e1-0b77-4623-84df-b5cac30ebfce" />

This behavior is random, as some runs download the document normally and others do not.

To Reproduce

1. Workflow creates a copy of a document
2. Dynamic fields are inserted into this copy of the document
3. The Google Drive node should download this updated document
4. The node runs successfully, but does not download the document. It also doesn't go down the failure path.

<img width="1633" height="641" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ff31f39e-6084-441e-98b3-1094daf70b6e" />

Expected behavior

The expectation was that this node would download the document that was created a few nodes ago. This binary is later converted to Base64 and sent to Salesforce.

<img width="1486" height="652" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2a3c7d29-162c-4538-8a7d-2b39687bcc89" />

Debug Info

Debug info

core

• n8nVersion: 2.13.3
• platform: docker (cloud)
• nodeJsVersion: 24.13.1
• nodeEnv: production
• database: sqlite
• executionMode: regular
• concurrency: 20
• license: enterprise (sandbox)
• consumerId: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

storage

• success: all
• error: all
• progress: false
• manual: true
• binaryMode: filesystem

pruning

• enabled: true
• maxAge: 720 hours
• maxCount: 25000 executions

client

• userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/147.0.0.0 safari/537.36 edg/147.0.0.0
• isTouchDevice: false

Generated at: 2026-04-17T18:00:45.866Z

Operating System

Windows 11 Pro

n8n Version

2.13.3

Node.js Version

?

Database

SQLite (default)

Execution mode

main (default)

Hosting

n8n cloud