Installing Rclone on Win 10

That error means you already have that port its trying to open open. Do you have another window open? Regardless, you can select 'n' there instead. and it will spit out a URL that you can open yourself in a browser. Then you'll authenticate to the account you want. and it'll give you a auth code to paste back in the command window.

Yes...got linked!
Name Type
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remote drive

Presumably I can now quit config?

Thank you for getting me here! Can you please, with a little more patience, tell me how to download drive contents (especially large files) onto an external drive using rclone?

Yes.

It should be as easy as:

rclone copy remote:some/folder "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run

Thanks. What do I put instead of "some/folder"? Do I need to create a folder on gdrive containing what I need copied and replace "some" with that?

rclone copy remote:some/folder "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run

some/folder is whatever folder on gdrive you want to copy to your drive. If you want everything, for example, it would just be:

rclone copy remote: "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run

Thanks. So I created a gdrive folder and copied hundreds of files into it. Then i get this:
C:\Users\Alem>rclone copy remote:Rclone Fat Video Files/folder "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run
'rclone' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

we are almost there? Am i miswriting the command? Can you spell it out so I can copy and paste. I just need to ensure contents in gdrive folder is copied to my hdrive/external storage.

if a path has space character, you must enclose the path in quotes.

rclone copy "remote:Rclone Fat Video Files/folder" "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run

I see. What else?
C:\Users\xxxx>rclone copy "remote:Rclone Fat Video Files/folder" "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run
'rclone' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

you need to supply the path to where rclone.exe is stored.

as per you posts above
c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe version

I tried these:
C:\Users\xxxx>c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe version
rclone v1.52.0

  • os/arch: windows/amd64
  • go version: go1.14.3

C:\Users\xxxx>rclone copy "remote:Rclone Fat Video Files/folder" "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run
'rclone' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\xxxx>c:\crclone\rclone copy "remote:Rclone Fat Video Files/folder" "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run
'c:\crclone\rclone' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

as with any application, you have to specify the full path of the .exe

c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe copy "remote:Rclone Fat Video Files/folder" "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run

Thank you! Now this:
C:\Users\xxxx>c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe copy "remote:Rclone Fat Video Files/folder" "C:\test" -P -v --dry-run
2020-06-05 13:06:00 ERROR : : error reading source directory: directory not found
2020-06-05 13:06:00 INFO : There was nothing to transfer
2020-06-05 13:06:00 ERROR : Attempt 1/3 failed with 1 errors and: directory not found
2020-06-05 13:06:00 ERROR : : error reading source directory: directory not found
2020-06-05 13:06:00 INFO : There was nothing to transfer
2020-06-05 13:06:00 ERROR : Attempt 2/3 failed with 1 errors and: directory not found
2020-06-05 13:06:01 ERROR : : error reading source directory: directory not found
2020-06-05 13:06:01 INFO : There was nothing to transfer
2020-06-05 13:06:01 ERROR : Attempt 3/3 failed with 1 errors and: directory not found
Transferred: 0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Errors: 1 (retrying may help)
Elapsed time: 0.0s
2020/06/05 13:06:01 INFO :
Transferred: 0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Errors: 1 (retrying may help)
Elapsed time: 0.0s

2020/06/05 13:06:01 Failed to copy: directory not found

you have to specify the correct source directory.

do a
rclone listremotes:

C:\Users\xxxx>c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe rclone listremotes:
Error: unknown command "rclone" for "rclone"
Run 'rclone --help' for usage.
2020/06/05 13:11:18 Fatal error: unknown command "rclone" for "rclone"

c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe listremotes:

Thanks. Now (will I ever cross this river!)

C:\Users\xxxx>c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe listremotes:
Access is denied.

Win 10 opens a dialog box saying this app not allowed.

Dialog:
"This app can not run on your pc"

try this
c:\crclone\rclone-v1.52.0-windows-amd64\rclone.exe listremotes

Thanks and same dialog.