After listing them, how do I actually add them to my drive

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Continuing the discussion from Copy from a google drive folder not in My Drive?:

Hi, thanks for this wonderful tool.

Here, clone lsf --drive-root-folder-id 1oCMgJeBc55NuEasPcgwjx2FuPdQd8neu drive: gives the list of all files/folders available on that public folder, now how do I add them to my drive? (i.e, the above command only lists them but doesn't actually add them to my drive.)

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hello and welcome to the forum,

  1. save the output to a file
    rclone lsf --drive-root-folder-id 1oCMgJeBc55NuEasPcgwjx2FuPdQd8neu drive: > files.lst
  2. this should work or something close to it.
    rclone copy --drive-root-folder-id 1oCMgJeBc55NuEasPcgwjx2FuPdQd8neu drive: drive: --files-from=files.lst --dry-run -vv
    note: change drive: to whatever your gdrive remote is named
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C:\Users\Home\Downloads\rclone\rclone-current-windows-amd64\rclone-v1.56.0-windows-amd64>rclone listremotes
CaMain:
CyberAvater:
dfg:
sdgnhb:
testn:

C:\Users\Home\Downloads\rclone\rclone-current-windows-amd64\rclone-v1.56.0-windows-amd64>rclone lsf --drive-root-folder-id 1mZrI-cihT33D-NwtlRZxwCvlYsorO6KH CyberAvater: > files.lst

C:\Users\Home\Downloads\rclone\rclone-current-windows-amd64\rclone-v1.56.0-windows-amd64>rclone copy --drive-root-folder-id 1mZrI-cihT33D-NwtlRZxwCvlYsorO6KH CyberAvater: CyberAvater: --files-from=files.lst --dry-run -vv
2021/08/15 09:45:50 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.56.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "copy" "--drive-root-folder-id" "1mZrI-cihT33D-NwtlRZxwCvlYsorO6KH" "CyberAvater:" "CyberAvater:" "--files-from=files.lst" "--dry-run" "-vv"]
2021/08/15 09:45:50 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "CyberAvater:"
2021/08/15 09:45:50 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\Home\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2021/08/15 09:45:50 DEBUG : CyberAvater: detected overridden config - adding "{SaXYQ}" suffix to name
2021/08/15 09:45:50 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "CyberAvater:" to be canonical "CyberAvater{SaXYQ}:"
2021/08/15 09:45:50 DEBUG : fs cache: switching user supplied name "CyberAvater:" for canonical name "CyberAvater{SaXYQ}:"
2021/08/15 09:45:50 ERROR : Google drive root '': Nothing to do as source and destination are the same
2021/08/15 09:45:50 NOTICE:
Transferred:              0 / 0 Byte, -, 0 Byte/s, ETA -
Elapsed time:         0.5s

2021/08/15 09:45:50 DEBUG : 2 go routines active

Thanks, but Shouldn't there be a one-line command to something as trivial as this?

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You could do it something like this:

rclone copy --dry-run drive,root_folder_id=1oCMgJeBc55NuEasPcgwjx2FuPdQd8neu: drive:destination-dir --drive-server-side-across-configs

Not 100% sure the --drive-server-side-across-configs is needed or not to enable server side copies.

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Hope you don't get mad, but I'm getting another error:

Failed to create file system for "drive,root_folder_id=0B_wmPHe0B1PFV0dWUEEycm9DT2M:": didn't find section in config file
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that was a generic example, need to use your remote.

rclone copy --dry-run CyberAvater,root_folder_id=1oCMgJeBc55NuEasPcgwjx2FuPdQd8neu: CyberAvater:destination-dir --drive-server-side-across-configs

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I think that's what I did,

D:\CL\rclone-v1.56.0-windows-amd64>rclone listremotes
data_hoard:
dead_collection:

D:\CL\rclone-v1.56.0-windows-amd64>rclone copy --dry-run drive,root_folder_id=0B_wmPHe0B1PFV0dWUEEycm9DT2M: data_hoard: --drive-server-side-across-configs
2021/08/16 01:35:17 Failed to create file system for "drive,root_folder_id=0B_wmPHe0B1PFV0dWUEEycm9DT2M:": didn't find section in config file

Edit: Oh, I see now. Everything is working as expected, thanks!