KopiaUI adding GCS as a repo

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I am sorry if this is a silly question but I just can’t seem to find the answer by searching. I don’t have much experience with the GCP. I was able to follow the Kopia documentation and create snapshots just fine via Kopia (cli).

I then installed KopiaUI on my laptop, EndeavorOS.
I am trying to add GCS as my repo but I receive this error and I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
“Connect Error: INTERNAL: internal server error: unable to initialize token source: google.JWTConfigFromJSON: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type google.credentialsFile”

GCS Bucket = same as on GCS
Object Name Prefix = blank
Credentials File = /home/user/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json
(I am not sure that is right)
Credentials JSON = I pasted the contents of the above json file.

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Hello, I’ve got the same issue in Kopia GUI on Windows. Nothing works. Impossible to connect to GCS…
I’m very disappointed of Kopia…

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Which of the three methods listed at Repositories | Kopia did you try?

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Hitting this one as well right now:

kopia repository connect gcs --credentials-file some_account.json"  --bucket "mybucket"
ERROR can't connect to storage: unable to initialize token source: google.JWTConfigFromJSON: invalid character ':' after top-level value

hints very welcome

EDIT: I am using CLI … not the UI as in the topic title. Anyway, seems the same issue to me.

EDIT2: solved … this happens if I use an outdated account key. The message isn’t exactly clear :wink: With a valid account key things work for me.

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