How to remove duplicate files and preserve folders?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I have many folders that have a duplicate filename in the same location. When I try to delete them, it delete the contents of the folder!

How can I only delete the file? Can I search for these duplicate files and remove them, leaving the folders and their contents in place?

They look like this:

rclone lsf "api_crypt:Kids_TV/Little Princess"
Little Princess Series 3/
Little Princess Series 3

My delete command was: rclone delete "api_crypt:Kids_TV/Little Princess/Little Princess Series 3" but these erased the contents of the folder!

I ended up filtering by excluding a dozen different filetypes. Is it possible to filter to include files with no extensions?

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.53.0

  • os/arch: darwin/amd64
  • go version: go1.15

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

MacOS

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

Google Drive

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For dealing with duplicates, you should check out rclone dedupe and use that instead.

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They are not actually duplicates, they just have the same name. When I run dedupe, it does not identify them as duplicates.

I have cleaned them up manually using deletefile.

Is it not possible to filter for names without an extension?

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That is a corner case which we don't deal with very well!

rclone dedupe should really detect this and do something, but it doesn't at the moment.

You can include everything with extensions --include "." which will exclude everything without extensions. Test first with -i flag.

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