Hi folks, I have been using rclone for almost over a year now and happy that I am familiar with its basic working as well as the layout which it offers. Initially I dint pay much attention, as it was overwhelming for me however with time as I have become conversant with its working I noticed lot more details which rclone developer team has offered, all of us.
Let me start. After every sync operation (or even copy operation), we are presented with a summary of statistics (I am posting a screenshot below). While I was able to find what is the meaning of 26889/26889 (specifically for this sync operation). It merely means that the source as well as destination has been checked and 26889 files have been checked. However, I am unable to find what is the meaning of 'Listed 33026'. I tried to search on Google and even the Rclone documentation page, but unable to 'understand' the meaning of 'Listed'. I am sure stalwarts here would definitely know it in details and guidance is requested.
I have few more clarifications to seek which are as given:-
KiloByte is abbreviated as KiB, MegaByte is abbreviated as MiB. I hope my interpretation is correct. Just curios to know why MB has been abbreviated as MiB and not MeB or MgB?
'Transferred' row in the summary shows at two places. First row depicts Source/ destination data transferred, success %, speed and time remaining (hope my interpretation is correct). If that be so, why do we have 'Transferred' again after 'Deleted' row! Should the name be more relevant to the information which this row presents?
I know a lot of effort goes into conceptualizing, designing and running such kind of amazing software's/ system. I am only asking these questions out of curiosity and to improve my understanding. So pls dont think I am trying to point out any flaw or mistakes.
Wow, when will I stop learning new things . Thanks for the insight. I wasn't aware of this difference. I knew only two methods the Megabit or MegaByte and byte is of course 8 times larger! Mebibyte is new for me but now it all makes sense.
Listed is a relatively new addition. It counts the number of files/directories that rclone has listed. Listing means that rclone saw that they existed but didn't necessarily do anything with them. So like counting the number of things you see when you type ls/dir or look in an explorer window.
We put this stat in so people could see rclone was doing something when it was processing very large directories. In that case the listed count counts up but nothing else changes until rclone has finished listing the directory.
The first row show total bytes we have transferred / total number of bytes we expect to transfer and the equivalent percentage
The second row shows total number of files transferred / total number of files we expect to transfer and the equivalent percentage
It is a bit odd now that I look at it that we have two Transferred: rows. Its like that so you can match the Checks with the Transferred easily (they count the same things at different stages of the transfer pipeline) though the fact that Deleted has appeared between them in your screen shot makes that harder to see.
Maybe we should put Deleted after transferred.
The layout of the stats is designed to be compact so it will fit on an 80 col terminal.
Thank you so much Craig for piping up and clarifying everything. Listening from horses mouth leaves no doubt now. You have provided us a wonderful tool .... thanks a lot for that.
And because you are the primary author of Rclone, I would like you to give me an input with regards to one of the Open Source Android App which I have been using. In order to access the remotes through my Samsung Phone, I have installed 'Round Sync' using 'F-Droid'. I don't know if it is your team who is behind designing it or is it a standalone project by somebody else.
My question is, "Is it safe to use this app?". I have my doubts as I had to import the passwords in this app using the rclone config file (rclone.conf) for enabling access to my remotes.
On the other hand, I am also skeptical about the continued use of this App on my device after Sep 26; as it 'might' not remain usable due to interference by Google. I have read a few articles which mention that 'Google' is going to be strict with regards to Apps other than Playstore and might ban all other apks.
. Thanks for the insight. I wasn't aware of this difference. I knew only two methods the Megabit or MegaByte and byte is of course 8 times larger! Mebibyte is new for me but now it all makes sense.
