Google Drive Trigger node doesn't work properly

Hey! First off, thanks a lot for the tutorial. I only knew about n8n for a few days but your vids have been tremendously helpful. Two things I notice when implement this template about RAG app with supabase though:

  • The google drive trigger doesn’t run every minute, even when my workflow is already active
  • When I run fetch test event, only 1 top file get fetched. I tried to look up the docs already but couldn’t find any settings. Just curious if anyone had the issue.
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Hey man!
It is set to be triggered only when you upload a new file to Google Drive or update an existing file. That’s why it doesn’t trigger every minute, I guess.
As per your second question - try to play with the “loop” node.

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Great answers to both questions, I appreciate it!

Just to add on to what you said for the second question - the workflow I made with the Google Drive Trigger does indeed only work when uploading one file at a time. The n8n workflow will only trigger once even if multiple files were added/updated since all of the files are output items in a list from the Google Drive Trigger node. So you just have to add a loop right after the trigger to perform the rest of the workflow on each file!

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