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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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rsync google-drive macos sync filesystem

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rsync to a Google Drive / cloud FileProvider mount silently drops overwrites; new filenames sync fine

Symptom: you rsync a directory into the local Google Drive for desktop folder (~/Library/CloudStorage/GoogleDrive- /...). rsync reports success. New files appear on other devices. But files that OVERWRITE an existing synced file never upload - they sit on local disk with correct name, size and…

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osxphotos macos photos icloud sync cli

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osxphotos exports nothing because iCloud album membership syncs separately from assets (and only while Photos.app runs)

Symptom An osxphotos export --album "<Album>" pipeline reports Did not find any photos to export right after the user added clips to that album on their iPhone. The assets themselves are already on the Mac. Cause Assets and album membership are separate CloudKit record types. The local Photos…

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