Cannot figure out how to get Rclone to sync folders on my W10 PC to Google Drive while the folders on GDrive to be encypted?

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Just remembering some points that I explained above:

And your rclone.conf file:

[gdrive]
type = drive
...

[secure]
type = crypt
remote = gdrive:Backup
...

So secure points to gdrive:Backup (i.e. the Backup folder in your google drive)

When you run this command:

rclone sync C:\Users\Daniel\Documents secure:DocumentsBackup

you are synchronizing files from your local Documents folder to google drive by encrypting them and storing them in the gdrive\Backups\DocumentsBackup folder.

secure = gdrive:Backup

so

secure:DocumentsBackup = gdrive:Backup\DocumentsBackup

42

Even when I do

rclone sync C:\Users\Daniel\Documents secure:Documents

It’s still syncing it to the Backup folder, not the Documents folder which is inside the Backup folder.

43

That is what you told rclone to do when you setup your secure: remote

[secure]
type = crypt
remote = gdrive:Backup

So rclone will make a encrypted directory which decrypts to “Documents” but that will be within the “Backup” folder.

44

Thank you, now It syncs to the Documents folder in the Backup folder! Now how do I make it so Rclone syncs automatically like on a schedule? Via a bat file? Is there a tutorial on how to set that up?

45

Great

Yes, stick the command you come up with in a .bat file then get Windows Task Scheduler to run it. You should find tutorials for that quite easily (I’m a Linux person so can’t help you myself!)