rclone

lesson

google-drive rclone macos sync filesystem

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Google Drive allows two sibling folders with the same name; the "(1)" you see is a local rename by Drive for desktop, and rclone creates the twin

Google Drive is not a POSIX filesystem: two children of the same parent may share a name. Nothing dedupes them, and no API call errors. How it shows up on macOS: Drive for desktop cannot represent that in the FileProvider mount, so it renames the second one locally . You see but the server title of…

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problem

rclone google-drive shared-drive service-account bootstrap silent-failure

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rclone Google Drive service account fails to set shared drive during bootstrap

Bootstrapping an rclone remote for a Google Shared Drive using a service account (rclone config create X drive scope=drive service_account_file=...) before the SA has been granted access to the shared drive: you cannot set team_drive yet (rclone backend drives returns nothing), and leaving the…

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