Error using RCLONE with google photos

Hi,
I'm using the command
rclone sync googlephotos:album/frame /home/pi/Pictures/digitalframe

and I get the error message
Failed to create file system for "googlephotos:album/frame": didn't find section in config file

What can it be ?
Thanks a lot....

hello and welcome to the forum,

did you create a remote as per the documentation?

and when you posted, there was template of questions, none of which you answered.
help us to help you and answer all the questions.

This time I tried following the rules...Thanks

#### What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I'm using the command
rclone sync googlephotos:album/frame /home/pi/Pictures/digitalframe

and I get the error message
Failed to create file system for "googlephotos:album/frame": didn't find section in config file

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

rrclone v1.57.0
- os/version: raspbian 11.2
- os/kernel: 5.10.92-v7l+ (armv7l)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: arm
- go/version: go1.17.2
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

**#### Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)**

Google Photos

**#### The command you were trying to run (eg `rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp`)**

rclone sync googlephotos:album/frame /home/pi/Pictures/digitalframe


#### The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[Googlephotos]
type = google photos
read_only = true
token = {"access_token":"REDACTED"}

#### A log from the command with the -vv flag

2022/01/27 14:45:24 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.57.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "sync" "googlephotos:album/frame" "/home/pi/Pictures/digitalframe" "-vv"]
2022/01/27 14:45:24 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "googlephotos:album/frame"
2022/01/27 14:45:24 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/pi/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2022/01/27 14:45:24 Failed to create file system for "googlephotos:album/frame": didn't find section in config file


Thanks!

Your remote is called:

but you typed in:

You need the capital G.

Thanks so much, I could search for this error forever. Now it works fine

thanks, as it helped use to solve this very quickly.

when you posted the config file, it should have been redacted.
need to remove that token, as anybody who has the info, can access your account.

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