How does the [snip] [snip] thing work for unlisted storage options?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I cannot add Proton Drive as an option in the interactive config setup. The rclone documentation has this in it…

Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Proton Drive
\ "protondrive"
[snip]
Storage> protondrive

… what does [snip] [snip] mean? There is no explanation/documentation about this. Just typing in “XX / Proton Drive” etc does not work. Copy/pasting the full text, both with and without the “[snip]”s doesn’t work.

This should be an obvious thing, I guess, and I am really frustrated right now, having spent over an hour online trying to decipher this thing, and not seeing any posts anywhere in this forum about it–nor anywhere else on the Internet either, so feeling quite stupid right now.

Please do not just answer this post. Update the tutorial documentation. I cannot be the only person who has no clue what this thing means.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.60.1-DEV

  • os/version: debian 12.1 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 6.1.0-37-amd64 (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.19.8
  • go/linking: dynamic
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Proton Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

```rclone config

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

Command does not work. I am using the latest version of rclone available in my OS package manager.

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

Paste  log here
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First try the same with the latest rclone. You are using old and custom built version - nobody here knows for sure what it does.

Ignore this [snip]:slight_smile: no idea why it got into docs. What you have to enter is number. XX in docs as it differs in different versions.

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Deleted my default installation – I know Debian tends to be slow on updated package support, but that doesn’t explain why/how a DEV / test version ended up in the standard/stable Debian repos.

Custom-installed the latest version using the rclone-provided install.sh script.

Now running …

rclone v1.70.3
- os/version: debian 12.1 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.1.0-37-amd64 (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.24.4
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

Nutshell … this works.

Still testing and figuring out the details, but a single-file PoC upload to Proton Drive worked.

Thanks.

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Please note that Proton drive implementation is in beta and unfortunately work on it stalled long time ago… It is probably full of bugs nobody is going to fix.

That said if it works for your needs then enjoy.

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