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I have recently encountered a problem with adding new tasks to Google-Tasks.

Both the Google Calendar integration (in any browser) and the Google Tasks App (on Android - Galaxy S9+) report an error whenever I try to add a new task.

On Google Calendar I get the error message:

"Reverting to the latest state because there was a problem."

On the Google Tasks App I get the error message:

"Unknown Server Error. Please try again later"

neither of which is very informative about how to solve the problem.

I did some further investigation via the Google-Tasks-API and found that I can still delete and modify tasks, but whenever I try to insert a new task into a list I get the following 403 error message from the API:

{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "usageLimits",
    "reason": "quotaExceeded",
    "message": "Quota Exceeded"
   }
  ],
  "code": 403,
  "message": "Quota Exceeded"
 }
}

However, I checked my Google-Tasks API quotas at: https://console.developers.google.com/iam-admin/quotas and I don't seem to be anywhere near any of the usages limits, so I don't really understand why I am getting this error message.

I've been using Google Tasks successfully for several years, including using the Google-Tasks-API to manage bulk updates, but have not changed any of my set-up recently. Is it possible I have stumbled into some global limit on the number of tasks permitted, or a limit on the number of tasks per list? I do have quite a lot of long-running tasks (I have a list to track dev ideas for some software that I maintain).

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I use Google Tasks to organise almost every aspect of my work-life and being without this is rather disruptive to my productivity.

It is rather frustrating that this issue seems to be affecting my normal day-to-day use of Google Calendar Tasks and the Google-Tasks App (I could have coped if it were just my script that uses the API that was not working).

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  • Are you using a service account? It would be helpful to see your code? Commented Jan 24, 2020 at 12:40
  • No, this is just a personal account. My code is little more than the Ruby quickstart code you can find at: <developers.google.com/tasks/quickstart/ruby> The call that generates the error is a simple: service.insert_task(list_id,some_task) where list_id is definitely the correct ID for my list (I can update existing tasks via the API) and some_task has been created with the expected params (title, due and notes). What's wierd is that Google Tasks via the website or app is also not working. Commented Jan 24, 2020 at 20:45
  • Sometimes a server error can temporarily occur due to server-side problems from Google's side. If the problem still persists - can you provide the exact request that gives you this error? Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 8:25
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    While investigating this issue further I dug into the response from the Google Tasks integration with Google Calendar and found the following: "Storage limit reached: Task creation failed because you exceeded the maximum number of 100000 tasks per account." So that explains the problem. Now I just need to work out how to fix this (deleting tasks does not seem to help) Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 21:23
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    Just in case anyone runs into the same issue, you have to wait about 1 month from the deletion of your tasks before you see any effect on your quota. Commented Apr 2, 2020 at 13:26
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