What is the problem you are having with rclone?
I run
D:>rclone check "d:\drive" "ghome:" --one-way --missing-on-dst --drive-skip-shortcuts -vv
and get logs
2026/03/01 17:11:18 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.73.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "check" "d:\drive" "ghome:" "--one-way" "--missing-on-dst" "--drive-skip-shortcuts" "-vv"]
2026/03/01 17:11:18 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "d:\drive"
2026/03/01 17:11:18 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\rclone\rclone.conf"
2026/03/01 17:11:18 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "d:\drive" to be canonical "//?/d:/drive"
2026/03/01 17:11:18 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "ghome:"
2026/03/01 17:11:19 DEBUG : Google drive root '': 'root_folder_id = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' - save this in the config to speed up startup
2026/03/01 17:11:19 INFO : Using md5 for hash comparisons
2026/03/01 17:11:19 DEBUG : Google drive root '': Waiting for checks to finish
and then processing continues but a file called --drive-skip-shortcuts has been created at the root of D: and it can't be deleted with the error
The action can't be completed because the file is open in Rclone
Once the processing is complete then the file is still present but can then be deleted. Only happens when using the check command, as far as I can tell. Other files with flag names are created if I swap the flags around.
What am I doing wrong?
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.73.1
- os/version: Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 24H2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.26100.7840 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.7
- go/linking: static
- 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)
D:>rclone check "d:\drive" "ghome:" --one-way --missing-on-dst --drive-skip-shortcuts -vv
Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.
[ghome]
type = drive
scope = drive.readonly
token = XXX
team_drive =
### 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
See top of post; I already ran it with -vv since I had the problem with -v and was trying to figure out what was happening.