Can I sync a top level directory tree and remove anything missing in the source?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I have an old copy of a cloud folder on my NAS that I would like to clean up but not fully sync. I would like to sync the cloud folder to my NAS folder but only remove the folders/files that are missing from the cloud folder. I do not want to sync all the files from the cloud to my NAS as I do not have the bandwidth to do that.

So for example, on my NAS I have...

Folder A with 100 files
Folder B with 10 files
Folder C with 100 files
Folder D with 1000 files

On my cloud drive I have

Folder A with 1000 files
Folder C with 1000 files

In this case I would just like to remove Folder B and Folder D but not add the 900 files added to Folder A and C

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.66.0

  • os/version: unknown
  • os/kernel: 4.4.302+ (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.22.1
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

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The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

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Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

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A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

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can use filters to include just the folders you want to sync
rclone sync remote: /path/to/local --include="Folder A"

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Thanks. That is the issue though, how can I specify the filter? There are hundreds of folders so I cant do it manually.

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well, you only posted about four folders, A,B,C,D

by default, if you sync a folder, all subfolders are also synced.

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Sorry if I was too vague, if it was only 4 folders I would do it manually. I figured out a work around by mounting both source and destination and doing a diff on the two and then piping that in to awk/xargs

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