What is the problem you are having with rclone?
Please refer to this prior post for detailed information regarding rclone version, etc. Rclone insufficient authentication Google Photos
I am working on 1 project - a digital picture frame for my wife. I had previously had rclone workind and syncing one of our Google photo albums with my raspberry pi and using a command line image viewer to display the pictures. In my previous post I listed out all of the information. Because this is the sole purpose of my project - I decided to go ahead and reset/renew my raspberry pi. Once done, I reinstalled rclone and ran a config - only to get the very same results I had previously. As I shared in the above post - I am a complete (kinda) noob to linux/pi/etc. My deduction at this point is that something with Google is afoul. Is there a way to remove prior rclone access keys/tokens? Any help is welcome!
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.69.1
- os/version: raspbian 12.8 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.6.51+rpt-rpi-2712 (aarch64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: arm64 (ARMv8 compatible)
- go/version: go1.24.0
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Google Photos
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
``rclone ls framephotos:album -vv
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.69.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "ls" "framephotos:album" "-vv"]
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "framephotos:album"
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/toalsonpie/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2025/04/19 07:19:51 ERROR : : error listing: couldn't list albums: Request had insufficient authentication scopes. (403 PERMISSION_DENIED)
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
2025/04/19 07:19:51 INFO : Google Photos path "album": Committing uploads - please wait...
2025/04/19 07:19:51 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: couldn't list albums: Request had insufficient authentication scopes. (403 PERMISSION_DENIED)
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#### Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.
[framephotos]
type = google photos
read_only = true
token = XXX
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
``rclone ls framephotos:album -vv
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.69.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "ls" "framephotos:album" "-vv"]
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "framephotos:album"
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/toalsonpie/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2025/04/19 07:19:51 ERROR : : error listing: couldn't list albums: Request had insufficient authentication scopes. (403 PERMISSION_DENIED)
2025/04/19 07:19:51 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
2025/04/19 07:19:51 INFO : Google Photos path "album": Committing uploads - please wait...
2025/04/19 07:19:51 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: couldn't list albums: Request had insufficient authentication scopes. (403 PERMISSION_DENIED)