Cannot save files from program directly to webdav

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Most programs when attempting to save into an rclone webdav (as a way of mounting my google drive (config attached)) give an error along the lines of "cannot save this". For example snipping tool gives me "Couldn't save that image". Paint . net gives a "error occurred when saving this image". and word gives "cannot save file" errors.

This seemed like a similar error, so I added the --vfs-cache-mode writes flag but that appeared to do nothing. It is also worth noting that this only seems to happen when saving directly from a program and not when copy and pasting things using windows explorer. I'm using webDAV as I don't have administrator access on this PC making winFSP out of the question.

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

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

Google Drive

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

Start-Process "rclone.exe" -ArgumentList "serve webdav gdrive: --vfs-cache-mode writes -vv"

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

[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive =

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

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welcome to the forum,

try --vfs-cache-mode full

fwiw, can native mount webdav server
net use x: http://127.0.0.1:8080

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Hi, thanks!

That doesnt seem to work either... Just get the same errors.

And yeah once the rclone starts the webdav server im mounting it with

& net use "G:" "http://127.0.0.1:8080/"

I'd give you a new log but somehow its now larger than 512kb which pastebin allows.

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i was able to reproduce that, not sure what is going on?

did not see anything in the debug log...

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It's probably also worth noting that after trying to save something, if you try again with the same filename and directory you get the "The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file" until you shutdown the rclone process and reopen it.

I dont know if that helps? but thats more info anyway