Google Drive to Google Drive just using IDs of Shared Drives

[David_Lee]

Hi Everyone,

Love Rclone, been using it for a couple of years.

I am trying to work out how to use Rclone to copy some folders on Google Drive where some are in a Shared Drive using the same account. Ideally I would create one Remote and do something like this:

rclone sync REMOTE:FolderID-Source REMOTE:FolderID-Destination

Seems the only way I can get it to do this is to create a Remote for each Shared Drive I need to work with.

I have tried --drive-root-folder-id but it changes both sides when using the same Remote.

Failing this I will just have to edit the config file and create the shared drive remotes there instead.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

David.

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

welcome to the forum,

@David_Lee

Ideally I would create one Remote and do something like this:

could use one combine remote and connection strings for the --drive-root-folder-id

there is an example in the rclone docs.
With the -o config parameter it will output the list in a format suitable for adding to a config file to make aliases for all the drives found and a combined drive

[David_Lee]

thanks for this. It inspired me to create a dedicated config for this project that now has around 550 remotes defined. I didn't use the -o config, actually used a Google Sheet to generate the text... no doubt I did it a harder way but was kind of quicker for me than working out the json. Many thanks for getting me to a solution.