Get sizes of files about to be copied

Feature
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I am monitoring and reporting progress of Rclone by watching the log file as it gets added to. I would like to know the byte count of all files that will be transferred, before the transfer begins. Right now I look for ‘Need to transfer - File not found at Destination” to identify files that will be transferred. It seems like it would be very easy for Rclone to include on this line the size of the file, just like it does when it generates the “Copied” message. Am I missing a way to specify this behavior? At the moment I am using Rclone version “v1.70.0-beta.8738.339ada4f8.fix-8545-onedrive-consistency”.

2

might want to rclone selfupdate

one way is to run rclone twice, once with --dry-run and once again without --dry-run
here are two ways

  1. run the command with --dry-run and at the end of the output will be
    Transferred: 74.150 KiB / 74.150 KiB, 100%, 0 B/s, ETA -
  2. run the command with --dry-run --include-from=missing-on-dst.txt and then
    rclone size src --include-from=missing-on-dst.txt
3

Not a bad idea - thank you.