Japanese characters error

[mrs1 (Mike)]

I'm trying to sync a Google drive which has many files with Japanese characters, the problem is that the sync won't finish because of the number of errors is reached. I'm using rclone v1.53.3. I tried increasing the retries to 64, but it seems to hit the 32 limit always.

Is there any way to make rclone complete the sync? (I don't need the Japanese files if I could exclude
them somehow). Is it possible to increase this 32 error limit?

Command and partial log below:

rclone sync drive:"path" "localpath" --checkers 2 --track-renames --transfers=1 --progress --delete-during --low-level-retries 64 --retries 64

2020-12-26 08:51:27 ERROR : SDガンダム ジージェネレーション クロスレイズ プレミアムGサウンドエディション [追加派遣：Ｇのレコンギスタ「大地に立つ｣作戦！（プレミアムGサウンドエディション用）] [010022900D3ED01A].txt: Failed to copy: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
2020-12-26 08:51:28 ERROR : SDガンダム ジージェネレーション クロスレイズ プレミアムGサウンドエディション [追加派遣：Ｇのレコンギスタ「大地に立つ｣作戦！（プレミアムGサウンドエディション用）][010022900D3ED01A].txt: Failed to copy: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
2020-12-26 08:51:28 ERROR : Local file system at //?/X:/path: not deleting files as there were IO errors
2020-12-26 08:51:29 ERROR : Local file system at //?/X:/path: not deleting directories as there were IO errors
2020-12-26 08:51:29 ERROR : Attempt 64/64 failed with 32 errors and: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Transferred: 0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Errors: 32 (retrying may help)
Checks: 319680 / 319680, 100%
Elapsed time: 1h2m29.0s
2020/12/26 08:51:29 Failed to sync with 32 errors: last error was: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Thanks!

[St0rm]

What's the location on the sync endpoint? Another Google drive or local? If local, what OS?
The problem is not the Japanese characters, but maybe the length of file/folder name to sync location?

cd /tmp
touch "SDガンダム ジージェネレーション クロスレイズ プレミアムGサウンドエディショ.txt"

(1:3177)# rclone copy /tmp/ gdrive:japanese -P --fast-list
Transferred:             0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Transferred:            1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time:         6.1s

[mrs1 (Mike)]

You're right, the filename is 269 chars (I truncated some for legibility purposes). I'm running under Windows on SMB fileshare on a NAS. Windows will not allow me to create this filename on this network drive complaining the file name is too long.

Is there any way to bypass copying too long files without interrupting the sync?

Thanks!

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

There is a really super hacky way of doing this - there are 256 question marks BTW!

--exclude "????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????*"

[mrs1 (Mike)]

Thanks!