Mounting a DropBox cloud drive doesn't work and I don't know how to fix it

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I try to mount my DropBox as a physical hard disk, but after I send the command to mount the disk nothing happens. Rclone keeps checking what happened to my dropbox cloud,

e.g.: I created a .txt named “Olá” in my pc and uploaded to DropBox and rclone showed this

2026/02/05 20:23:00 DEBUG : Dropbox root '': Checking for changes on remote
2026/02/05 20:24:27 DEBUG : changeNotify: relativePath="Olá.txt", type=1
2026/02/05 20:24:27 DEBUG : >changeNotify:
2026/02/05 20:24:27 DEBUG : Dropbox root '': Checking for changes on remote
2026/02/05 20:29:48 DEBUG : Dropbox root '': Checking for changes on remote

but I still can’t see the hard disk (that should be named as Z:, if I understood the documentation correctly) in the “Computer” menu of my file explorer. Therefore I cannot acess the mounted folder. I never mounted any cloud drive in my pc with rclone if that helps. Only OneDrive and Vbox native mountings

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

I tryied in 2 versions. This one:

rclone v1.73.0
- os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Single Language 22H2 22H2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.19045.6466 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.6
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: cmount

And the current beta:

rclone v1.74.0-beta.9447.eef0b39a2
- os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Single Language 22H2 22H2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.19045.6466 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.7
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: cmount

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

DropBox

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone mount edrei_dropbox: *

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[edrei_dropbox]
type = dropbox
token = XXX

[edrei_onedrive]
type = onedrive
token = XXX
drive_id = XXX
drive_type = personal
### Double check the config for sensitive info before posting publicly

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

C:\Rclone\Beta>rclone mount edrei_dropbox: * -vv
2026/02/05 20:21:59 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.74.0-beta.9447.eef0b39a2" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "edrei_dropbox:" "*" "-vv"]
2026/02/05 20:21:59 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "edrei_dropbox:"
2026/02/05 20:21:59 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\KELLE\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2026/02/05 20:22:00 NOTICE: Assigning drive letter "Z:"
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : Network mode mounting is disabled
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : Mounting on "Z:" ("edrei_dropbox")
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : Dropbox root '': Mounting with options: ["-o" "attr_timeout=1" "-o" "uid=-1" "-o" "gid=-1" "--FileSystemName=rclone" "-o" "volname=edrei_dropbox"]
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : Dropbox root '': Init:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : Dropbox root '': >Init:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Statfs:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Statfs: stat={Bsize:4096 Frsize:4096 Blocks:524288 Bfree:524288 Bavail:524288 Files:1000000000 Ffree:1000000000 Favail:0 Fsid:0 Flag:0 Namemax:255}, errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getattr: fh=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getattr: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Readlink:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 ERROR : symlinks not supported without the --links flag: /
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Readlink: errc=-40, linkPath=""
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getxattr: name="non-existant-a11ec902d22f4ec49003af15282d3b00"
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getxattr: errc=-40, value=""
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getattr: fh=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getattr: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getattr: fh=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getattr: errc=0
The service rclone has been started.
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Opendir:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: OpenFile: flags=O_RDONLY, perm=-rwxrwxrwx
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >OpenFile: fd=/ (r), err=<nil>
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Opendir: errc=0, fh=0x0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getpath: Getpath fh=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getpath: errc=0, normalisedPath="/"
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Statfs:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getattr: fh=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getattr: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Statfs: stat={Bsize:4096 Frsize:4096 Blocks:524288 Bfree:524288 Bavail:524288 Files:1000000000 Ffree:1000000000 Favail:0 Fsid:0 Flag:0 Namemax:255}, errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getattr: fh=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Releasedir: fh=0x0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getattr: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Releasedir: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Opendir:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: OpenFile: flags=O_RDONLY, perm=-rwxrwxrwx
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >OpenFile: fd=/ (r), err=<nil>
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Opendir: errc=0, fh=0x0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getpath: Getpath fh=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getpath: errc=0, normalisedPath="/"
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Releasedir: fh=0x0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Releasedir: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getattr: fh=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getattr: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getattr: fh=0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getattr: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Opendir:
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: OpenFile: flags=O_RDONLY, perm=-rwxrwxrwx
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >OpenFile: fd=/ (r), err=<nil>
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Opendir: errc=0, fh=0x0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Getpath: Getpath fh=0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Getpath: errc=0, normalisedPath="/"
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: Releasedir: fh=0x0
2026/02/05 20:22:00 DEBUG : /: >Releasedir: errc=0
2026/02/05 20:23:00 DEBUG : Dropbox root '': Checking for changes on remote

Thanks in advance for whoever is reading this.

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welcome to the forum,

make sure rclone ls edrei_dropbox: lists that file

perhaps this is the issue?
Drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts

fwiw, to work around that problem, i always mount to folder, not a drive letter.

for example,
rclone mount edrei_dropbox: c:\rclone\mount\edrei_dropbox

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tysm. My problem was exactly that one on the link. Seems like every command done on administrator doesn’t work on regular cmd and vice-versa.

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the workaround is to mount to a folder, then every command, every process, windows explorer, etc.. all can see the mountpoint

i rclone mount a lot of drives on a lot of machines and create a lot of vss snapshots.
so i created a tiny drive letter b: so all my commands, they look like

rclone mount zork: b:\rclone\mount\zork

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