Copying files from a publicly accessible google drive folder added as a shortcut getting error 404, server side copies are disabled

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

This sounds very similar to the other thread here:

Getting "googleapi: Error 404: File not found:" error only for some files in a remote

Thank you for that. I'll post the most important parts redacted here. Firstly, yes google really does return a 404 message 2022/05/12 14:09:28 DEBUG : GET /drive/v3/files/0B15NJBKtA97odkgyZTVIMjhvMnZMWEFrRk9KdTlLNnhpT0Vz?alt=media HTTP/1.1 Host: www.googleapis.com User-Agent: rclone/v1.58.1 Authorization: XXXX Accept-Encoding: gzip 2022/05/12 14:09:28 DEBUG : HTTP RESPONSE (req 0xc000784c00) 2022/05/12 14:09:28 DEBUG : HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Content-Length: 338 Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=259200…

That has some instructions for getting the full info about the file - can you try that? The ID you need is the one in the 404 message without the trailing ., so 0B7vPmuZfN3snV19LTEhUNXYzM0k.

The fact that the files don't download locally means that this isn't some server side copy oddity (of which there are plenty!).