Unable to use --drive-acknowledge-abuse with Google Drive EDU to download stored files google flagged as malicious

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

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2023/12/10 21:03:22 DEBUG : GET /drive/v3/files/1AoHuJGMYkId54xW9WP6XOrkE2e-ySZbv?alt=media&acknowledgeAbuse=true HTTP/1.1

You can see rclone putting the correct header on here acknowledgeAbuse=true

This is discussed more here

Bisync already add --drive-acknowledge-abuse still got critical error , cannotDownloadAbusiveFile

Thanks @ncw. Forgive me for being a little green with the debug options (I'm brand new to rclone). I added -vv --dump headers to the command and re-ran it. The URLs I'm seeing are of this form: $ grep acknowledgeAbuse out.log 2023-01-31 12:58:04 DEBUG : GET /drive/v3/files/<redacted>?alt=media&acknowledgeAbuse=true HTTP/1.1 ... It seems that this is the same issue described here. I changed my command to impersonate a user who has Manager access on this drive, and it completed without error.

The conclusion being you'll need to get that Manager access somehow.