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[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@rcfan

I went back to look at it again and found that my config changes were not being updated for some reason. So I found the rclone.conf file and manually edited it. And what do you know, it actually works.

On the down side, it means I can't actually add any more remotes, until I figure the problem with the config file.

This might be Configuration file changes are lost if rclone is running · Issue #682 · rclone/rclone · GitHub - don't do rclone config if rclone is running.

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@bupkis

That's great and it works. But is there some way to make the environment variable persistent that is not itself a security risk?

That is a hard problem! The canonical solution would be to use an agent to store the value. For instance you could run gpg-agent then script the decryption of a pgp file with the password in. You could do similar things with ssh-agent or gnome-keyring maybe...

Something like this might help also: Crypt support for public/private keys (public key crypto) · Issue #737 · rclone/rclone · GitHub depending on what you are trying to acheive

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@pulcro

Have you thought about mega.co.nz? They offer a huge 50GB for free, it would be great to use rclone for that too.

support for mega.nz

So many cloud providers, so little time!