Create a large zip file in Google Apps Script

Question

I appreciate that other posters have alluded to this issue before. I know how to create a zip file comprised of a number of other folders and files using Utilities.Zip. The problem is the size of the resultant file. Because the resultant file is larger than 10MB (as, let's face it, any zip file containing more than a few images will be) createFile fails (throwing an exception as described here).

It appears that the Advanced Services Drive.Files.insert is subject to the same limitation.

Is it really true that there is absolutely no way to programmatically create a file larger than 10MB in Google Drive? It's a real stumper for the app I'm writing.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Previously there was a way to append to a file, that method expects a string as a parameter. Trying to pass it the contents of a binary file will result in garbled and useless output. This was the only way that I found to defeat the 10MB per file limit. See reference:

• http://www.neant.ro/2014/02/backup-files-on-google-drive-using-google-apps-script/

• How can i create a big file in google drive with google app script?

However the function file.append() is deprecated on December 11, 2014 by Google.

Thus I don't think you can get what you want now from my perspective. Let me know if anything I was missing about it. Hope it helps.