Copying a folder which have two subfolder having same name

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I wanted to copy a shared folder having two subfolder of same name and I wanted to exclude one of them(marked red in image) as it is of big size and my destination does not have that much storage.

And I have folder id but I am not able to filter that using folder id.

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When I do filter using name, then both GATE folder got excluded.

And I want one of the GATE to be copied to my destination.

I have a long way solution for this.

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hi,
if this is a one time thing?
if so, perhaps rename one of the folders.

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This is in shared folder and i have no any admin rights.
So I can't.

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well then, this is a good question.

i have no idea what to do, but it got me thinking?

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I don't think you can do this directly with rclone at the moment. Rclone doesn't like duplicated file names very much - Google drive is pretty much unique in allowing duplicated file names!

The best I can think of is this

  --exclude-if-present string   Exclude directories if filename is present
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I have to paste folder id in place of string. Right?
Let me try and give feedback here.
Thanks

Edit:Not worked...
So I have gone for long way🙂

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perhaps you can run a couple of rclone commands.

rclone copy gdrive: dest: --exclude="/GATE/**"

and then rclone copy based on folder id what you want to use

rclone lsf -R gdrive: --format=pi
GATE/;13OwXfj31grF8LVthTlOVDWliJOJJnwOH
GATE/;1pH0fhYAtSOmD0gr-fJw2dmZtyv-xvG5X
GATE/GATE2/;1TvSMfVKiaVbuSIggumAg9QnPA87os6s5
GATE/GATE1/;1Nshu90SduTF6FpSorI68NMZCimzofSFR

set RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID=13OwXfj31grF8LVthTlOVDWliJOJJnwOH
rclone copy C:\path\to\local\folder\gate1\gate1.txt gdrive:\ -v
2020/04/04 14:07:02 INFO : gate1.txt: Copied (new)
2020/04/04 14:07:02 INFO :
Transferred: 1 / 1 Bytes, 100%, 1 Bytes/s, ETA 0s
Transferred: 1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time: 0.7s

set RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID=1pH0fhYAtSOmD0gr-fJw2dmZtyv-xvG5X
rclone copy C:\path\to\local\folder\gate2\gate2.txt gdrive:\ -v
2020/04/04 14:07:03 INFO : gate2.txt: Copied (new)
2020/04/04 14:07:03 INFO :
Transferred: 1 / 1 Bytes, 100%, 1 Bytes/s, ETA 0s
Transferred: 1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time: 0.8s

set RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID=
rclone lsf -R gdrive: --format=pi
GATE/;13OwXfj31grF8LVthTlOVDWliJOJJnwOH
GATE/;1pH0fhYAtSOmD0gr-fJw2dmZtyv-xvG5X
GATE/gate1.txt;176WKQ_oxD9qWCPf08Saru7iSkN1WBK7O
GATE/GATE1/;1Nshu90SduTF6FpSorI68NMZCimzofSFR
GATE/GATE2/;1TvSMfVKiaVbuSIggumAg9QnPA87os6s5
GATE/gate2.txt;1PYoTRU-XUI8XcBelphvF0FeKqdGi_BFi

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I have mentioned in the post that I have a long solution for this.
And this is it.

My copying process is completed now.

Btw thanks for effort.

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Hey I was trying ur command but not seems to be working .
Where are u running this command?
I am running in termux.

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Can u post ur screenshot?
The process i have followed for cooying was working for gdrive to mega but that same command is not working for gdrive to gdrive.

I don't know why.

I will ask in different questions today with screenshot.

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You put in the name of a file in the directory you wish to exclude.

A long way is still a way! Glad you got it done.

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in the end, did you accomplish what you needed?

on my windows computer.
those command will not run on liunx or termux.
you would have to tweak the commands.

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a screenshot of what?

i posted the commands and their output.

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so i have been trying to learn more about linux.
so i converted my windows .cmd script to a liunx .sh script

the .sh runs under

  1. windows subsystem for linux
  2. termux

here is the .sh file

rclone lsf -R gdrive: --format=pi

export RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID=redacted
rclone copy ~/path/to/local/folder/gate1/gate1.txt gdrive:/ -v

export RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID=redacted
rclone copy ~/path/to/local/folder/gate2/gate2.txt gdrive:/ -v

export RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID=
rclone lsf -R gdrive: --format=pi

and here is the output from termux

$ ./test.gate.sh
GATE/;redacted
GATE/;redacted
GATE/GATE1/;redacted
GATE/GATE2/;redacted
2020/04/05 16:33:15 INFO  : gate1.txt: Copied (new)
2020/04/05 16:33:15 INFO  :
Transferred:             1 / 1 Bytes, 100%, 0 Bytes/s, ETA 0s
Transferred:            1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time:         1.1s

2020/04/05 16:33:17 INFO  : gate2.txt: Copied (new)
2020/04/05 16:33:17 INFO  :
Transferred:             1 / 1 Bytes, 100%, 1 Bytes/s, ETA 0s
Transferred:            1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time:         0.9s

GATE/;redacted
GATE/;redacted
GATE/GATE2/;redacted
GATE/gate2.txt;redacted
GATE/gate1.txt;redacted
GATE/GATE1/;redacted
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