--drive-export-formats url

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I’m hoping to use bisync to keep all of the files and folders in a Google Shared Drive in sync with a local mirror on an external SSD on a Mac. I’d like for gdocs to appear in Finder as .url or .webloc files so that they’ll open in a browser as gdocs when double-clicked from Finder. However, when I use the flag “--drive-export-formats webloc” I get errors about rsync not being able to update link files.

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

rclone v1.71.2

  • os/version: darwin 14.6.1 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 23.6.0 (arm64)
  • os/type: darwin
  • os/arch: arm64 (ARMv8 compatible)
  • go/version: go1.25.3
  • go/linking: dynamic
  • go/tags: cmount

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)

```rclone bisync drewtest: /Volumes/Test/ --filters-file ~/Documents/rclone/filters.txt --create-empty-src-dirs --compare size,modtime,checksum --slow-hash-sync-only --resilient -MvP --drive-export-formats webloc --fix-case ```

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

type = google cloud storage
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
project_number = XXX
bucket_policy_only = true
token = XXX
storage_class = REGIONAL
[drewtest]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX
root_folder_id = 
[ibmbox]
type = box
token = XXX
### Double check the config for sensitive info before posting publicly```

#### A log from the command that you were trying to run with the `-vv` flag

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https://pastebin.com/K3ngbqWL
2

something went wrong with that post lol

Here’s the pastebin link for the output

https://pastebin.com/K3ngbqWL
3

welcome to to the forum,

maybe you could test a much simpler command, on a single file. something like:

rclone copy drewtest:path/to/file.ext /Volumes/Test/ --drive-export-formats=webloc --dump=headers --retries=1 -vv
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Yes, it does seem to work in this scenario - and when you do the first bisync (with –resync) it does work. The problem seems to occur with subsequent syncs using bisync