{"record":{"id":"dc1b9c7a7547d117","repo":"XingangPan/DragGAN","slug":"google-drive-download-quota-exceeded-please-try","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Google Drive download quota exceeded -- please try again later","messagePattern":"Google Drive download quota exceeded -- please try again later","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"IOError","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"dnnlib/util.py","lineNumber":459,"sourceCode":"    with requests.Session() as session:\n        if verbose:\n            print(\"Downloading %s ...\" % url, end=\"\", flush=True)\n        for attempts_left in reversed(range(num_attempts)):\n            try:\n                with session.get(url) as res:\n                    res.raise_for_status()\n                    if len(res.content) == 0:\n                        raise IOError(\"No data received\")\n\n                    if len(res.content) < 8192:\n                        content_str = res.content.decode(\"utf-8\")\n                        if \"download_warning\" in res.headers.get(\"Set-Cookie\", \"\"):\n                            links = [html.unescape(link) for link in content_str.split('\"') if \"export=download\" in link]\n                            if len(links) == 1:\n                                url = requests.compat.urljoin(url, links[0])\n                                raise IOError(\"Google Drive virus checker nag\")\n                        if \"Google Drive - Quota exceeded\" in content_str:\n                            raise IOError(\"Google Drive download quota exceeded -- please try again later\")\n\n                    match = re.search(r'filename=\"([^\"]*)\"', res.headers.get(\"Content-Disposition\", \"\"))\n                    url_name = match[1] if match else url\n                    url_data = res.content\n                    if verbose:\n                        print(\" done\")\n                    break\n            except KeyboardInterrupt:\n                raise\n            except:\n                if not attempts_left:\n                    if verbose:\n                        print(\" failed\")\n                    raise\n                if verbose:\n                    print(\".\", end=\"\", flush=True)\n\n    # Save to cache.","sourceCodeStart":441,"sourceCodeEnd":477,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/XingangPan/DragGAN/blob/336f120ce126aca6f55dc58537e76c10d19eabd0/dnnlib/util.py#L441-L477","documentation":"Raised by dnnlib.util.open_url when the response body is a small HTML page containing 'Google Drive - Quota exceeded'. Google Drive caps downloads per file per day; once the cap is hit, no retries help until the quota resets. It propagates as an IOError after retries are exhausted (each retry re-hits the quota page).","triggerScenarios":"Calling open_url (or any tool that loads a pickle from URL, like legacy.load_network_pickle) on a Google Drive file that has exceeded its daily download quota — typically a popular pretrained model shared publicly.","commonSituations":"Using third-party StyleGAN2 weights shared via Google Drive links that went viral; the error persists for up to ~24h until quota reset; users on shared IPs (corporate NAT/VPN) hit the cap sooner.","solutions":["Wait for the Google Drive quota to reset (usually within 24 hours) and retry","Copy the file to your own Google Drive ('Make a copy' / 'Add shortcut') and download from that copy","Download via a different mirror if the model author provides one (HuggingFace, direct HTTP)","Upload the file to a personal host (S3/Dropbox) and pass that URL","Download manually in a browser (which sometimes still works under account auth) and use the local file path"],"exampleFix":"# before\nwith dnnlib.open_url('https://drive.google.com/uc?id=FILEID') as f: ...\n\n# after\n# copy to your own Drive or mirror, then:\nwith dnnlib.open_url('https://my-mirror.example.com/model.pkl') as f: ...","handlingStrategy":"fallback","validationCode":null,"typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":"try:\n    with dnnlib.open_url(url) as f: data = f.read()\nexcept IOError as e:\n    if 'Quota exceeded' in str(e):\n        with open(local_fallback_path, 'rb') as f: data = f.read()\n    else:\n        raise","preventionTips":["Mirror weights you depend on to your own storage","Retry after ~24h when Google Drive quota resets","Copy shared Drive files to your own Drive before downloading"],"tags":["network","google-drive","quota","rate-limit","stylegan2"],"backgroundTag":"download-quota-exceeded","analyzedSha":"336f120ce126aca6f55dc58537e76c10d19eabd0","analyzedAt":"2026-08-27T06:29:00.251Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-27T08:17:20.692Z"}