Detecting incomplete file download from Google Photos

[timevortex (Parth Shukla)]

@timevortex

I'll create seperate posts for what I think could be feature additions to make this easier (will link back on this thread when done).

I've created these feature requests based on my experiences here:

Add flag to exit immediately when --max-duration reached

Creating this feature request based on my experience with Google Photos as per Detecting incomplete file download from Google Photos I think adding a flag along the lines of --exit-immediately-on-max-duration would be useful for when intermittent API problems is preventing a transfer in-progress from finishing (or starting correctly) as I've experienced with Google Photos API.

Add flag to delete incomplete files on exit

Creating this feature request based on my experience with Google Photos as per Detecting incomplete file download from Google Photos I think it makes sense to add a new flag along the lines of --delete-incomplete-files-on-exit which should be triggered when a SIGTERM is received. What this flag would do: delete all files from the destination that are in the process of being transferred/copied to by rclone. This would be tremendously useful for Google Photos since there is no easy way to detect…

Add way to interrupt and resume commands

Creating this feature request based on my experience with Google Photos as per Detecting incomplete file download from Google Photos While downloading from Google Photos I notice that my backlog or transfer queue is normally quite large. This queue rarely gets completed before Google Photos starts throwing 404s or other errors requiring me to kill rclone sync. Building this queue used up some of the limited API quota so it seems pretty unfortunate that it gets thrown away and re-built on next r…