[CLOSED] Sort by alphabetical order

[ClementNerma (Clément Nerma)]

Hi there!

I'm currently trying to make a function that lists all the files that will be transferred by rclone during a sync before actually doing them, just in case.

For the sake of readibility, I want the files to be listed in alphabetical order, but I can't get this to work. Here is my command:

rclone.exe sync <source> <dest> --progress --progress-terminal-title \
        --stats-file-name-length 0 --max-backlog "10000000" \
        --check-first --order-by "name" --transfers 1 \
        --create-empty-src-dirs ----track-renames --track-renames-strategy "leaf,size" \
        --filter "- System Volume Information/**" --filter "- \$RECYCLE.BIN/**" \
        --dry-run

But the files are not shown in alphabetical order ; in fact the order changes every single time I run the command.

I'm using rclone v1.55.1 on Windows 10.

Do you have any idea of what's causing this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[ClementNerma (Clément Nerma)]

Ok so it seems I'm just dumb and couldn't read the documentation completely, by adding --checkers 1 it works perfectly fine.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to display a warning when --order-by is supplied but checkers > 1? It's really confusing to specify this argument and still get a somewhat random order.

EDIT: I take back what I said, it still isn't perfectly alphabetical

According to the docs it should work perfectly as I supply --check-first as well but this doesn't seem to do the job.