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Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from different storage systems and the local file system.

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Google Drive in Ubuntu with full local copy

From OneDrive (Windows) or GoogleDrive (Windows) I am used to much more than I currently have in Ubuntu. The built-in GNOME Online Accounts is not what I want. I've also tried other clients but all do not copy the whole Workspace locally, rather…
Florian Schneider
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How to delete all files in remote directory with rclone?

I use rclone with Ubuntu 12.04 to upload files from server to Google Drive. Everything works fine, but I can not figure out, with what command I can delete all files in directory. I have a remote called gdrive. I tried using empty…
Mike
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"notify-send" not running with "rclone" ( when used in a startup script )

I'm trying to run the following script at startup. I am able to see the notification only when I execute the script from the terminal, or when I run it as a program. So the issue is basically when run by the Startup Manager. Script: #!/bin/bash #…
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Can I use the drive URL to copy a folder with rclone?

Rather than navigate through the folder structure I'd find it easier to just use the drive URL that I could copy from - for example Firefoy. Like this: rclone copy https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/some_id_from_gdrive . Is it possible? or…
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How to make fast read/write access for rclone synced directory?

I want to sync my Google Drive directory with local directory and after some research I concluded that rclone seems to fit my needs, but I still can't figure out some nuances. As for now, I managed to create connection and mount directory by the…
Divelix
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How to use RCLONE with CRON

I have a script in a user folder that works successfully when run manually. But I cannot get it to work when run via the user cron (edited via crontab -e). There are web posts elsewhere by others who have the same problem, but I do not understand…
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Ubuntu server crashing from rclone, what could be the problem?

I am using rclone to sync and then check several source and destination directories. While it is running the Ubuntu Server VM freezes up. When the Ubuntu Server VM crashes it becomes completely non responsive, the guest agent stops running, I cannot…
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How to install rclone in Ubuntu without root?

I read from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/638885/onedrive-on-linux-without-root that I can install rclone without root by following https://rclone.org/install/#linux-installation-from-precompiled-binary I ran the 1st 3 lines curl -O…
Kong
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Running rclone sync with systemd

I hope you are all having a great day. I have been tearing my hair out trying to do something I initially thought would be simple, run rclone to sync my files to Google at shutdown. I know most people suggest automatically running an rclone script…
Barry Hohstadt
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Ubuntu file dialogs slow when an rclone mount is set up (Google Drive)

I have recently set up rclone to be able to access my Google Drive from the filesystem. I have however noticed that the open/save file dialog provided by Gnome now takes up to about one minute to show up sometimes. (I have also found that accessing…
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rclone 1.60.1 in Ubuntu 24.10 has problems connecting to Microsoft OneDrive

The recent version of rclone (1.60.1) in Ubuntu 24.10 has a problem uploading files to Microsoft OneDrive. Although the connection credentials are correct, we get error messages like: 2024/12/03 18:51:41 NOTICE: : Failed to cancel…
FedKad
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Rclone and Google Drive Authorization giving an error

I'm running a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS public server. I'm attempting to install Rclone to back up a folder to my Google Drive. I'm using the notes from where I did this before but I cannot get it to work this time. I've installed Rclone and then ran the…
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LS in directory does not return in certain directories

I've got a Duplicati installation pushing to a remote SSH server. This server has a FUSE connection to Mega (I know duplicati has Mega support, but Duplicati stores the password in plain text and Mega doesn't support other authentication methods, so…
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Mounting OneDrive without Microsoft Account

I am trying to mount a OneDrive so that we can easily back up data files to a cloud server. Our databank is somewhat large (10TB) so we wanted to store it on our lab's OneDrive. I followed the OneDrive RClone mounting tutorial described in these…
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How to solve: curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination

I am really new to Ubuntu (22.04.1 LTS) and I would like to install Rclone using the command described in their installation page: https://rclone.org/install/ sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s beta Unfortunately I get the…
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