Thanks for your help. Yes, I am a noob and need to clean out everything from my google drive hundreds of gb of video/photos/documents by transferring all files and folders to an external hard drive.
What is the problem you are having with rclone?
Can not install in Win 10 64. I download 64bit version into C drive, extract, click on rclone app which opens and close a commands prompt that says I should use a command prompt. I open admin command prompt, and it shows C:\WINDOWS\system32>
I paste rclone.exe config
It returns with 'rclone.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
v1.52.0
Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)
Win 10 64
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Gdrive
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
I created new folder in OSC (C:) and it allows me to call it rclone (no diatrictical marks)
I copied into this folder the unextracted zip rclone files from the link provided and also did the same after extracting and copying the files into rclone.
I type c:\rclone\rclone version into command prompt when it gives me c:\Users\Jack> prompt
It returns with
C:\Users\Jack>c:\rclone\rclone version
The system cannot find the path specified.
Thank you. I mistyped the google drive 13 with 14...how do i correct?
C:\Users\Alem>c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe config
2020/06/03 17:01:31 NOTICE: Config file "C:\Users\Alem\.config\rclone\rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
1 / 1Fichier
\ "fichier"
2 / Alias for an existing remote
\ "alias"
3 / Amazon Drive
\ "amazon cloud drive"
4 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Provider (AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, Digital Ocean, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio, etc)
\ "s3"
5 / Backblaze B2
\ "b2"
6 / Box
\ "box"
7 / Cache a remote
\ "cache"
8 / Citrix Sharefile
\ "sharefile"
9 / Dropbox
\ "dropbox"
10 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
\ "crypt"
11 / FTP Connection
\ "ftp"
12 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
\ "google cloud storage"
13 / Google Drive
\ "drive"
14 / Google Photos
\ "google photos"
Slow steaday progress. Thanks for bearing with me. I want to download onto my external drive all files (video/photos/files) but especially the storage hogging videos if I run out of space on my drive.
Google Application Client Id
Setting your own is recommended.
See https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own.
If you leave this blank, it will use an internal key which is low performance.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_id> Google ApplicationClient Secret
Google Application Client Secret
Setting your own is recommended.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_secret> 1
Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
1 / Full access all files, excluding Application Data Folder.
\ "drive"
2 / Read-only access to file metadata and file contents.
\ "drive.readonly"
/ Access to files created by rclone only.
3 | These are visible in the drive website.
| File authorization is revoked when the user deauthorizes the app.
\ "drive.file"
/ Allows read and write access to the Application Data folder.
4 | This is not visible in the drive website.
\ "drive.appfolder"
/ Allows read-only access to file metadata but
5 | does not allow any access to read or download file content.
\ "drive.metadata.readonly"
scope> 1
ID of the root folder
Leave blank normally.
Fill in to access "Computers" folders (see docs), or for rclone to use
a non root folder as its starting point.
Note that if this is blank, the first time rclone runs it will fill it
in with the ID of the root folder.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
root_folder_id>
I know...obviously this is not my language/skill and I am not sure what to put in at the prompts to ensure I dont screw up. I just know what I need the end result to be! I will reread the instructions to see if I can work it out but even that is sometimes beyond my comprehension.
