Google drive IO errors

The end of my log shows the following errors after

rclone --transfers=32 --checkers=16 --drive-chunk-size=16384k sync /volumeUSB1/usbshare1-2/Backup1/ARCHIVE remote:ARCHIVE -v

Errors: 0
Checks: 887372
Transferred: 0
Elapsed time: 5h58m0.9s

2017/07/12 06:10:57 INFO : Google drive root ‘ARCHIVE/Projects’: Waiting for checks to finish
2017/07/12 06:10:57 INFO : Google drive root ‘ARCHIVE/Projects’: Waiting for transfers to finish
2017/07/12 06:10:57 ERROR : Google drive root ‘ARCHIVE/Projects’: not deleting files as there were IO errors
2017/07/12 06:10:57 ERROR : Attempt 3/3 failed with 0 errors and: can’t overwrite directory with file
2017/07/12 06:10:57 Failed to sync: can’t overwrite directory with file

Any clues as to why this might be happening, or explanation for this?
Cheers
K

What is the output with the “-vv” option so that you can see the actual file names. From the clue in the log it seems as though you may have an empty directory with a name that is the same as a new file you are trying to add.

You could also try to delete empty directories:

Rclone rmdirs remote:ARCHIVE