How to keep both files when getting the "Duplicate object found in source - ignoring" error?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I am trying to run rclone copy but have certain folders with duplicate objects. This results in only one version being kept. How can I keep both, renaming one perhaps? Thanks!

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

rclone version
rclone v1.62.2
- os/version: darwin 13.5.2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 22.6.0 (x86_64)
- os/type: darwin
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.20.2
- go/linking: dynamic
- go/tags: none

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

Google Drive

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

rclone copy -P --ignore-checksum gd:/ "/Volumes/My Large Hard Drive" --exclude "/Folder 1 to exclude/**" --exclude "/Folder 2 to exclude/**"

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

[gd]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
acknowledge_abuse = true
token = XXX
root_folder_id = XXX
team_drive =

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

The below is with --dry-run option

2023/09/15 18:03:11 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "gd:/"
2023/09/15 18:03:11 DEBUG : Using config file from "/Users/home/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2023/09/15 18:03:11 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "gd:/" to be canonical "gd:"
2023/09/15 18:03:11 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/Volumes/My Large Hard Drive/"
2023/09/15 18:03:11 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "/Volumes/My Large Hard Drive/" to be canonical "/Volumes/My Large Hard Drive"
2023-09-15 18:03:11 DEBUG : gd: Loaded invalid token from config file - ignoring
2023-09-15 18:03:11 DEBUG : Saving config "token" in section "gd" of the config file
2023-09-15 18:03:11 DEBUG : gd: Saved new token in config file
Transferred:              0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA -
Elapsed time:         1.5s^C
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Rclone doesn’t handle duplicates as you have run rclone dedupe to clean the source.

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Thanks! May I ask what do you mean clean the source? Such as modifying the source google drive folders/file?

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You need to run rclone dedupe

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There is no functionality like this in rclone but you can use workaround described in the below post: