Delete equivalent of CopyTo

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Hello …

I am using the CopyTo variant to send/receive SINGLE files using drag/drop to various locations.

Consequently, the list of files in a directory on the cloud service can be distributed among any number of directories on the local drive. It works quite nicely.

I would now like to delete SINGLE files … however … since there is no local directory listing that corresponds to the cloud directory, the sync command is not an option to remove them.

My question is whether there is a SINGLE file delete command equivalent to the CopyTo command ?

Thank you in advance for your time and attention.

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You can do rclone delete remote:path/to/file and that will work - however that will traverse the destination directory.

There is no direct equivalent to deleteto which doesn’t do that traverse - maybe there should be?

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Hello Nick,

I had settled on this:
rclone delete --include “test.txt” cloud:folder

After which I tried your suggestion:
rclone delete cloud:folder/test.txt

They both work !!!

Hmmm, I am definitely liking the CopyTo command so a DeleteTo would be a nice to have.

Thank you.

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That is almost equivalent to what I wrote, except it could delete “test.txt” in subdirectories too.

Can you please make a new issue on github and I’ll see what we can do! I think I prefer the name rclone deletefile and make it so it can only delete 1 file but as efficiently as possible.

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Hello Nick,

Doh !!! Double apologies. First, I did not “pick up” the instruction to make a new issue on github and second, I am not versed in the ways of github. I will try my hand at github and attempt to complete my assignment.

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Thanks! We do the actual development of rclone on github so making an issue there will start the process :slight_smile: