# Error 403: Download Quota Exceeded on Google Drive

**URL:** <https://forum.rclone.org/t/error-403-download-quota-exceeded-on-google-drive/37907>\
**Category:** Help and Support\
**Created:** [April 30, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/error-403-download-quota-exceeded-on-google-drive/37907 "2023-04-30T13:32:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![azra3l](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/azra3l/32/14940_2.png) [@azra3l](https://forum.rclone.org/u/azra3l)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/error-403-download-quota-exceeded-on-google-drive/37907/1 "2023-04-30T13:32:52Z")

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#### What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Most of my media files are not playing and am getting the below error while checking out rclone logs.

> vfs cache: failed to download: vfs reader: failed to write to cache file: open file failed: googleapi: Error 403: The download quota for this file has been exceeded., downloadQuotaExceeded

#### Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.62.2

- os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 5.19.0-38-generic (x86\_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.20.2
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

Are you on the latest version of rclone? You can validate by checking the version listed here: [Rclone downloads](https://rclone.org/downloads/)  
--\>Yes

#### Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

--\>Google Drive

#### The command you were trying to run (eg `rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp`)

```auto
[Unit]
Description=Rclone VFS Mount
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=azra3l
Group=azra3l
Type=notify
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount \
  --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.131 Safari/537.36' \
  --config=/home/azra3l/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
  --allow-other \
  --rc \
  --rc-no-auth \
  --rc-addr=localhost:5572 \
  --drive-skip-gdocs \
  --vfs-cache-mode=full \
  --vfs-read-chunk-size=128M \
  --vfs-cache-max-age=48h \
  --vfs-cache-max-size=64G \
  --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=2048M \
  --buffer-size=64M \
  --poll-interval=15s \
  --dir-cache-time=1000h \
  --cache-dir=/mnt/secondary/cache \
  --timeout=10m \
  --drive-chunk-size=64M \
  --drive-pacer-min-sleep=10ms \
  --drive-pacer-burst=1000 \
  --umask=002 \
  --log-level INFO \
  --log-file=/mnt/secondary/logs/rclone.log \
  -v \
  google: /mnt/remote
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true --url http://localhost:5572 _async=true
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /mnt/remote
Restart=on-abort
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3

```

#### The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

```auto
[TV]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_file = /opt/sa/all/26.json
team_drive = 

[Movies]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_file = /opt/sa/all/120.json
team_drive = 

[Music]
type = drive
team_drive = 
scope = drive
service_account_file = /opt/sa/all/220.json

Movies4K]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_file = /opt/sa/all/27.json
team_drive = 

TV4K]
type = drive
service_account_file = /opt/sa/all/121.json
team_drive =
scope = drive

[Books]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_file = /opt/sa/all/221.json
team_drive = 

```

#### A log from the command with the `-vv` flag

```auto
https://privatebin.tardisonline.in/?89fbfc64fff44b11#Eh8Smw6bwdJthC6JCGLj5y3K79bwFZnFXtwoFeuVopwj

```

I use SARotate to rotate between 300 json files to avoid the 700gb upload and download issue.

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**Author:** ![Animosity022](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/animosity022/32/451_2.png) [@Animosity022](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Animosity022)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/error-403-download-quota-exceeded-on-google-drive/37907/2 "2023-04-30T13:36:12Z")

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> [@azra3l](#):
>
> I use SARotate to rotate between 300 json files to avoid the 700gb upload and download issue.

We don't advise doing anything to bypass Google's limits. Closing out.

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**Author:** ![Animosity022](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/animosity022/32/451_2.png) [@Animosity022](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Animosity022)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/error-403-download-quota-exceeded-on-google-drive/37907/3 "2023-04-30T13:36:15Z")

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Closed on April 30, 2023, 1:36pm UTC