# Copy all files with same name by flag

**URL:** <https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-all-files-with-same-name-by-flag/29921>\
**Category:** Help and Support\
**Created:** [March 27, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-all-files-with-same-name-by-flag/29921 "2022-03-27T22:47:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![normy](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/65b543/32.png) [@normy](https://forum.rclone.org/u/normy)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-all-files-with-same-name-by-flag/29921/1 "2022-03-27T22:47:49Z")

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#### What is the problem you are having with rclone?

what is the command that can do Don't skip files that exist on destination, transfer all files with same names : because --no-check-dest no effect

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

1.58v  
Linux

#### 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`)

```auto
fclone copy --no-check-dest remote:

```

#### The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

```auto
Paste config here

```

#### A log from the command with the `-vv` flag

```auto
Paste log here

```

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**Author:** ![asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/u/asdffdsa)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-all-files-with-same-name-by-flag/29921/2 "2022-03-27T22:52:58Z")

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hello and welcome to the forum,

hard to understand what you want, very cryptic?

perhaps  
[--ignore-times](https://rclone.org/docs/#i-ignore-times)  
or  
[--include=filename.ext](https://rclone.org/filtering/#include-include-files-matching-pattern)

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**Author:** ![normy](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/65b543/32.png) [@normy](https://forum.rclone.org/u/normy)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-all-files-with-same-name-by-flag/29921/3 "2022-03-27T23:57:56Z")

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Hi  
I thought that rclone could copy files with the same name using the "--no-check-dest" flag but it doesn't work  
i download videos from youtube , or sometimes i transfer a lot of pdfs to google drive, and these have the same filename but the content is different and rclone ignores them because the --ignore-existing flag is default

then maybe there is another flag that I am not aware of that corrects this inconvenience

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**Author:** ![asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/u/asdffdsa)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-all-files-with-same-name-by-flag/29921/4 "2022-03-28T00:05:33Z")

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perhaps

rename the files as they are uploaded using `rclone copyto`  
or

```auto
--suffix=/`date +%Y%m%d.%I%M%S` --suffix-keep-extension

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.rclone.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/39ad3235f6ffec76ccd0c81616bd55697b4c300d.png) [@system](https://forum.rclone.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-all-files-with-same-name-by-flag/29921/5 "2022-04-27T00:05:44Z")

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Closed on April 27, 2022, 12:05am UTC

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