Confused by "--ignore-times"

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Hi there,

so the docs say:

--ignore-size        #Ignore size when skipping use mod-time or checksum.
-I, --ignore-times   #Don't skip files that match size and time - transfer all files

Why doesn't it say:

-I, --ignore-times   #Ignore date/time when skipping use size or checksum.

I only want to ignore date and time, NOT size. Also the "transfer all files" part doesn't make any sense to me.

PS.
What i want to achieve is, to simply ignore the modification date/time of all files when syncing and only look at size or checksum (Gcloud storage.)

Can someone clarify? Thanks in advance... :pray:t3: :slight_smile:

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Look at --size-only

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--checksum is probably what you want which looks at size + checksum

--size-only just looks at size which will be quicker as it doesn't have to checksum the local file

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--checksum is probably what you want which looks at size + checksum

Okay great, thank you!

(i wasn't sure if --checksum would cause re-downloading to determine the remote checksum, but as i understand it does not...)

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Google drive files have an MD5SUM stored alone side them rclone can read without downloading the file.

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