What is the problem you are having with rclone?
Listing directories with Google Photos (which in reality lists albums) does not give correct results when album names contain a forward slash character /
. If you have albums named May/01
and May/02
what will get listed via rclone lsd
is just May
. I assume it's getting a list of all items at the Google Photos location and then only looks at characters before /
for album names. This appears to also affect the rclone check
and rclone copy
commands since photos in albums containing /
aren't seen at the remote location. rclone
thinks they need to be uploaded still even if they don't.
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.68.1
- os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.19045.4894 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.23.1
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: cmount
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Google Photos
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp
)
rclone lsd gphotos_Dad:album
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
[gphotos_Dad]
type = google photos
token = ...
client_id = ...
client_secret = ...
A log from the command with the -vv
flag
2024/11/10 17:47:46 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.68.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "lsd" "gphotos_Dad:album" "-vv"]
2024/11/10 17:47:46 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "gphotos_Dad:album"
2024/11/10 17:47:46 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2024/11/10 17:47:46 DEBUG : Google Photos path "album": List: dir=""
2024/11/10 17:47:46 DEBUG : Google Photos path "album": Error reading media count: strconv.ParseInt: parsing "": invalid syntax
2024/11/10 17:47:46 DEBUG : Google Photos path "album": >List: err=<nil>
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 1 100KC330
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 1 102_FUJI
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 2 103KC330
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 10 104_FUJI
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 174 2012-07-23 Grandma
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 0 ASHLYNN
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 2 Camera Roll
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 12 Desktop root
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 -1 GAMES
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 -1 Google Photos Backup
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 3 My Pictures root
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 22 Pictures from Old Computer
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 -1 Users
-1 2024-11-10 17:47:46 -1 WEDDING PICTURES
2024/11/10 17:47:47 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
2024/11/10 17:47:47 INFO : Google Photos path "album": Committing uploads - please wait...