Dropbox max file size constantly repeating upload

[SL-Gundam]

I'm using rclone with dropbox.
I've had single files which sometimes exceed 400GB which is over the dropbox file size limit.

The simple solution would be to use Chunker. But if the user does not know the limit exist chunker might not be present.

Rclone currently tries uploading and at some point starts over, uploads again and starts over. It keeps doing this until manually cancelled. Wouldn't it be better if rclone stopped trying and just produced an error when files exceed the storages max file size limit?
Preferably before it even tries uploading. If possible This should be checked on the dropbox layer of the config since chunker could change this in the pipeline.
Another solution is to automatically apply chunker when the situation requires it. But that would obfuscate the applied config pipeline.

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@SL-Gundam

Rclone currently tries uploading and at some point starts over, uploads again and starts over. It keeps doing this until manually cancelled

at some point, rclone should error out. a debug log would show that.

@SL-Gundam

Another solution is to automatically apply chunker when the situation requires it. But that would obfuscate the applied config pipeline.

could write a script to do that.

1. get list of files including file size.
2. for files over --max-size=400G, use chunker remote
3. for the rest of files, do not use chunker remote