What is the problem you are having with rclone?
I know the difference between the "/" and the "／" character, and when I run "rclone lsd gdrive:my_folder" it returns something like
0 2025-05-26 05:00:22 -1 (Shared w／ Me)
on a normal google drive where the properly-encoded "／" character was used. I read Overview of cloud storage systems about restricted characters being escaped with the ` character, but I have (many, many) folder names in this drive which accidentally replaced the "／" with a "-" character — so I thought I'd do the natural thing and run something like:
rclone moveto --metadata gdrive:my_folder/"(Shared w- Me)" gdrive:my_folder/"(Shared w／ Me)"
but this produces
0 2025-05-26 04:48:03 -1 (Shared w‛／ Me)
even though it was the already-encoded special forward-slash character. This leaves me in the awkward position of executing the following command:
rclone moveto --metadata gdrive:my_folder/"(Shared w‛／ Me)" gdrive:my_folder/"(Shared w／ Me)"
always resulting in the same idempotent result? What do I do here?
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.67.0
- os/version: darwin 10.15.5 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 19.5.0 (x86_64)
- os/type: darwin
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.22.4
- 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 moveto --metadata gdrive:my_folder/"(Shared w‛／ Me)" gdrive:my_folder/"(Shared w／ Me)"
Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.
[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive =
A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag
(Only going to share some of the output)
2025/05/26 05:34:20 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.67.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "moveto" "--metadata" "-vv" "gdrive:my_folder/(Shared w‛／ Me)/" "gdrive:my_folder/(Shared w／ Me)/"]
2025/05/26 05:34:20 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "gdrive:my_folder/(Shared w‛／ Me)/"
2025/05/26 05:34:20 DEBUG : Using config file from "/Users/my_user/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
...
2025/05/26 05:34:21 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "gdrive:my_folder/(Shared w‛／ Me)/" to be canonical "gdrive:my_folder/(Shared w‛／ Me)/"
2025/05/26 05:34:21 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "gdrive:my_folder/(Shared w／ Me)/"
...
2025/05/26 05:34:24 DEBUG : Google drive root 'my_folder/(Shared w／ Me)': Using server-side directory move
2025/05/26 05:34:25 INFO : Google drive root 'my_folder/(Shared w／ Me)': Server side directory move succeeded
2025/05/26 05:34:25 INFO :
Transferred: 0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA -
Elapsed time: 4.3s