Failed on reading the "System Volume Information" folder even when excluding it

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

My goal is to let rclone copy only some of the files and folders while ignoring all the others, with the following example command:

rclone copy C:/ D:/ --dry-run --filter “+ FILE_NAME” --filter “+ FOLDER_NAME/**” --filter “- **”

I think the problem with that command is that --filter "+ FILE_NAME" means look for a file called FILE_NAME in any folder so rclone can’t narrow down the folders it has to search. Perhaps this will do what you want? --filter "+ FOLDER_NAME/**/FILE_NAME" --filter "+ FOLDER_NAME/FILE_NAME"

Furthermore, as described earlier, explicitly excluding the system volume information folder using --filter “- System Volume Information/**” does not work either.

This works for me when I try it

rclone.exe ls C:\ --filter "- Recovery/**" --filter "- System Volume Information/**" --filter "- PerfLogs/**" --filter "- $Recycle.Bin" --filter "- Config.Msi/**" --filter "+ VERSION" --filter "+ Go/**" --filter "- **"

Can you try instead of doing a copy do an ls with the filters - you should be able to get it to work.

BTW, I just tried the command without the --dry-run argument to see if this is a dry-run only problem.

However, in addition to the access denied error, rclone reports a new error:

FILE_NAME: Failed to copy: mkdir \?: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

In fact, I just found that this error will be triggered when copy from a folder on a local drive to a destination path that matches one of the two conditions:

It points to the root of a drive, such as D:/
It points to a non-existing folder, such as D:/to_be_created

That is a known issue: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1754 for which I’m awaiting a fix in the go standard library.