Question on how sync handles moved files

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Hi all

I'm in the process of updating my set-up and I had a question on how rclone sync handles files that have been moved on the remote dir? If I run a sync with a local directory and I have moved a number of files from subdir1 to subdir2 in my remote, will it re-download the moved files or will it know to move the files locally?

If it does just move the files, how does it know/identify moved files? If the files/subfolders have been renamed, will it still know to move the files?

The remote in question is Google Drive, in case this is relevant.

Thanks for your help!

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If you supply the --track-renames flag it will move the files locally.

By hashes by default, but you can configure this with --track-renames-strategy

Yes it will.

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