Instant ban from Google using rclone mount on Windows

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I’ve scratching my head on this.
I have a rclone remote configured in my PC with a custom API key.
I tried to mount the drive on Windows several times the past few days and then I try to point a folder with one movie on Plex.
As soon as I try to play the file, Windows accuses it’s downloading the file.

It doesn’t play on Plex, than I try again and I receive a 403 forbidden response on rclone logs. So, in the end I think I try to download only one file.

There are only 26 API requests in the past hour.
I mounted it using readonly allowothers buffersize 1g options.

Can’t understand why is Google banning me.
Any help is appreciated.

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Did you configure the cache? You can search through the forums and see how to set it up.

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Nope. I didn’t config it, but I saw that it was an important part of the process after the ban…
what bothered me is that I did almost anything with the files… also the API requests were very low, etc.
The ban seemed like a instant ban.

I read somewhere that Drive File Stream is also a good option.
Indeed I didn’t see anyone having bans with it, which would be bad, since it’s a product from Google itself.
I’m going to try to run plexdrive on a VM. It seems what most people are doing with a setup like that.

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Google Drive File Stream might not be the best option, because it always download the whole file even if you only need to read a small part of it.

Just a newbie here so my following experience is just for reference. Please feel free to correct me:

I also experienced instant ban from using rclone on Windows, but at that time I thought it might be due to my copying files on the Google Drive web interface from my Backup and Sync folder to My Drive. Another potential reason, which I read somewhere, could be rclone’s trying to traverse all the files on GD right away. I’m not sure the root cause as I also had very few API usage.

Anyway after I started using rclone cache, I didn’t experience the instant ban again (so far). You may want to try it out.

Note that rclone cache on Windows currently has a bug that may hide all the folders after a while. As a work around, I try to set a 24-hour cache for the directory with the --dir-cache-time flag. Not sure if it really helps though but at least I haven’t encountered the bug yet, during my very limited time of testing. Hopefully a fix will come out in the near future.