Rclone cache not needed for plex?

kind of a vague statement, not sure what that means?

your mount command points to a folder named gcache.
you might want to change that

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The gdrive mount disconnected and my plex lost connection to it.

is rclone running?

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Yes it looks like it

i would redo the mount and see what happens.

strange that every 60 seconds, there is this
" Google drive root '': Checking for changes on remote"
and this twice
"gdrive: Loaded invalid token from config file - ignoring
gdrive: Saved new token in config file"

is that a mac osx?
are you running osxfuse, if so, make sure you are using the latest version.

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I refreshed the token so not sure why that happened. I had to reboot as it doesn't let me re-run the command if rclone is still running

If I change my mount command and use:

rclone mount -vvv gdrive: /Users/Users/gdrive

I am assuming that plex won't recognize that and I will have to add a new library in plex and re-scan everything?

Yes mac OSX, confirmed running osxfuse 3.10.4

sorry, i do not use plex.
but i see your point, about re-scanning.

scanning a library is quick for me, as i do not scan for thumbnails and download metadata from the internet.

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Here is the command I was using mounting the cache:

rclone mount -vvv --allow-non-empty gcache: /Users/User/gcache

and now I am changing it to this:
rclone mount -vvv gdrive: /Users/User/gcache

Would there be any harm done in keeping that gcache as the folder to avoid re-scanning? The reason being is that I like to have recently added items shown first vs I am not sure what will happen if I change the directory that plex is looking at

i do not use cache, i do not use plex and i am not sure how they interact.

what i do know is that the cache is beta, no longer maintained, has known bugs, not needed for streaming from gdrive and is going to disappear in the next release of rclone.

with that said, here is what i would do.

  1. delete the cache from the config file.
  2. continue to use the rclone mount -vvv gdrive: /Users/User/gcache
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Understood, thank you for your help

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