Changes made on Google Drive won't update on my raspberry pi

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Whenever I make an update on Google Drive like adding a new image or deleting one, this change won't update on my raspberry pi mounted folder. My end goal is to make changes made on google drive change my raspberry pi so they are exactly the same.

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

The latest version.

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Latest version of Raspberry Pi OS on Raspberry Pi 4 B

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)

Syncing will update any changes made on the raspberry pi folder to google drive but not vice versa

rclone sync remote:DESTINATION

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

Everything is default. I made it have full access to read and write

type = drive
scope = drive

A log from the command with the -vv flag

I added file 3408.jpg to google drive and the debug sees it but it won't download it. I also removed file new.txt from google drive and it doesn't see it but it won't remove it.

rclone sync -vv Slides: /home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive/
2021/05/26 13:56:45 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/pi/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2021/05/26 13:56:45 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.55.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "sync" "-vv" "Slides:" "/home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive/"]
2021/05/26 13:56:45 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "Slides:"
2021/05/26 13:56:46 DEBUG : Google drive root '': root_folder_id = "REMOVED" - save this in the config to speed up startup
2021/05/26 13:56:46 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive/"
2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : cracked-screen.jpg: Size and modification time the same (differ by 0s, within tolerance 1ms)
2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : cracked-screen.jpg: Unchanged skipping
2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : 3408.jpg: Size and modification time the same (differ by 0s, within tolerance 1ms)
2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : 3408.jpg: Unchanged skipping
2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : Local file system at /home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive/: Waiting for checks to finish
2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : Local file system at /home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive/: Waiting for transfers to finish
2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : Waiting for deletions to finish
2021/05/26 13:56:47 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2021/05/26 13:56:47 INFO  : 
Transferred:   	         0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Checks:                 2 / 2, 100%
Elapsed time:         1.8s

2021/05/26 13:56:47 DEBUG : 4 go routines active

what version of rclone?

3408.jpg: Unchanged skipping
the reason rclone is not downloading 3408.jpg is that is already exists in the dest local folder

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That's interesting because that file does not exist in the destination folder.

rclone version v1.55.1

post rclone ls /home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive/*.jpg

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How did you determine that?

What do you see when you try these commands:

ls -l /home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive
rclone lsl /home/pi/Desktop/SlideShowFilesGdrive
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Thank you for this. I completely forgot about listing the files and was just using the Pi's GUI which is obviously misleading. The files do exist and I was able to access them with Python. Thank you!

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