I have been using rclone on Google Drive for several months. rclone is so powerful in handling files on Google Drive.
However, when I copy the shortcut of the file to my Google Drive space via server side copying,
rclone only copies the shortcut of the file, not the file itself.
I know this action has been mentioned in https://rclone.org/drive/#shortcuts.
But I think if there is a flag to change this default action to copy the contents of the shortcut, rclone will be more powerful.
As shortcut can content shortcuts themselves, guess use would have to be confident on what he what to transfer.
Maybe a good idea to put it to at least to size also.
Finally, cyclic circular redundancy could prove (link from the shortcut to himself or a parent) to be an issue... Or even worse :
Tl;dr : basic version easy, corners cases not so much ?
Thank you for your affirmation.
For the circular things, maybe we can combine the flag "--drive-follow-shortcuts" with a number to limit the tracking depth of shortcuts or the default depth of 1?
Nice idea, that would be very tricky with rclone's current architecture though. Once you've followed a shortcut then you have arrived in a new directory that is impossible to tell from any other directory.
TBH I'm not too worried about circular shortcuts, they fall into the self inflicted injury category and I'm happy to write in the docs that rclone will follow shortcuts forever!
