How to get started with rclone copy?

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I'm new to RClone and I've just made a google drive configuration named gdrive. Now I want to copy(or sync, I don't know) the PDF files in ~/Documents/eBooks to a directory with the same name on my Google Drive.

This is the first time I ran the command that I came up with:

$ rclone copy --progress ~/Documents/eBooks/ gdrive/eBooks                                                                                                                               
Transferred:      161.327 MiB / 161.327 MiB, 100%, 0 B/s, ETA -                                                                                                                               
Transferred:           31 / 31, 100%                                                           
Elapsed time:         0.9s

But it executed like a jet and didn't result in uploading files to my Google Drive. So I re-executed it and here's the result:

$ rclone copy --progress ~/Documents/eBooks/ gdrive/eBooks
Transferred:              0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA -
Checks:                31 / 31, 100%
Elapsed time:         0.0s

It acts like it's uploading the files, but there's nothing in my Google Drive.

This is a one-way action, meaning that I'm just updating the files from my PC, and I want to see the PDF annotations I make on my PC with my other devices.

What's wrong? Should I use sync instead of copy?

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you copied it locally to folder called gdrive/eBooks.. This is why it was so quick:)

Assuming you have created remote called gdrive you should run:

rclone copy --progress ~/Documents/eBooks/ gdrive:eBooks

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Thanks, although copying to a local dir feature seems redundant. IDK I'm a newbie.
Will it just upload the changed bits of the changed files in feature executions?

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It operates on files bases. It will skip any already copied files but will copy anything changed/new.

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What about " Should I use sync instead of copy?"

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It is up to you.

sync will sync:) your local directory to remote. So if you delete something it will be deleted from remote to. Copy does not delete anything.

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That's it. Thanks for your quick response and patience.

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