File download fails for gib files

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What happened

I was trying to retrieve a 1.5Gb file from a folder and when I execute the getFile function after a bit of downloading time I got what I think is a buffer related error.

Code executed

Here is the excerpt a test version of my original code that ends up with the same error.
note: googleDriveSvc is just a custom class that wraps the node-google-drive functions

let gfiles = await this.googleDriveSvc.listFiles();
for(let i=0; i<gfiles.length;i++) {
   const gfile = gfiles[i];
   await this.googleDriveSvc.getFile(gfile, this.tmpFolder);
}

Error

buffer.js:799
    return this.utf8Slice(start, end);
                ^

Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters
    at Buffer.toString (buffer.js:799:17)
    at Request.<anonymous> (/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/ferrini-strapi/google-drive-s3-cron/node_modules/request/request.js:1128:39)
    at Request.emit (events.js:327:22)
    at Request.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:467:12)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/ferrini-strapi/google-drive-s3-cron/node_modules/request/request.js:1076:12)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:421:28)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:327:22)
    at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:467:12)
    at endReadableNT (internal/streams/readable.js:1327:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) {
  code: 'ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG'

Versions

I am using node v. 12.19.0 on a ubuntu 20.04 machine, but also on OSX with node 14.16.0 I got the same results.