What diagnostic steps should I take to fix this authorization?

Question

I am hitting a blocking issue where I cannot download the code for my app engine.
I have:

1. Run gcloud components update
2. Made an absolute path call to appcfg.py
3. Run gcloud auth login to confirm I'm logged into the right account.
4. Confirmed the app actually exists.

I've seen the unexpected characters u's~ at the beginning of the app id. It might have something to do with UTF8 vs a previous format but do not remember the remedy.

What diagnostic steps should I take to fix this authorization?

DarianMac:~ darianhickman$ ~/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/appcfg.py -A 'profound-ship-156505' -V '20170211t171524'   download_app ./download
07:01 PM Host: appengine.google.com
07:01 PM Fetching file list...
Error 403: --- begin server output ---
You do not have permission to modify this app (app_id=u's~profound-ship-156505').
--- end server output ---

What diagnostic steps should I take to fix this authorization?

Answer 1

If you head into the cloud console is your user marked as a project owner?

From: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/downloading-source-code#permissions

Only the developer who uploaded the code and the application owner(s) can download it. If anyone other than these parties attempts to download the app, they'll see an error message like the following:

Fetching file list...
Error 403: --- begin server output ---
You do not have permission to download this app version.
--- end server output ---