B2 Error - couldn't list single level: Too Many Requests

[talkingpixels (Tom Scott)]

I’m on a paid account and my cap limit isn’t even close to being hit, so I don’t think that’s the cause. As an aside, I have posted a separate reply about that issue here…

New sync method in v1.36 and Backblaze B2 Class C Transaction Cap

Hi, I'm having a similar issue. I have about ~275GB of data synced from Dropbox to B2 (~200,000 files in ~35,000 directories). I'd like to have a daily cron run to keep it up to date. However, each time I run rclone (without --old-sync-method) it uses 10,000+ transactions. Although the cost is negligible for a day, over a year this would nearly double the cost of me using B2. Keeping some kind of low-transaction method, without too higher price to pay in terms of speed and memory usage, would …

Unless I’m missing something, they appear to be separate issues.