What is the problem you are having with rclone?
When using rclone, I cannot list or perform other actions on files within certain directories within OneDrive personal. The only thing in common with the directory names I cannot list appears to be a certain pattern involving periods.
This appears very similar to this topic, but no solution was ever found, and that had to do with Dropbox and I am only having the issue in OneDrive.
I am using Hasher to help speed up hashsums with my remotes, but I can reproduce this even if I bypass Hasher and access my OneDrive remote directly. I have both Windows 11 and Arch Linux machines, and can reproduce this issue on both systems.
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
On Windows 11:
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone version
rclone v1.73.1
- os/version: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 25H2 25H2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.26200.7840 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.7
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: cmount
On Arch Linux:
[chris@chris-03 ~]$ rclone version
rclone v1.73.1
- os/version: arch (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.18.13-arch1-1 (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.7 X:nodwarf5
- go/linking: dynamic
- go/tags: none
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
OneDrive personal (not business, though I do have a Microsoft 365 family subscription)
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/Drivers/Video/3DFX Voodoo3"
1440 Instructions.txt
33451 Video_Settings.reg
988672 v1.07.00/1033.mst
2384384 v1.07.00/3dfx Tools.Msi
3843625 v1.07.00/Data.Cab
520 v1.07.00/ToolsVer.txt
8930304 v1.07.00/Voodoo3-10700.exe
61952 v1.07.00/install.exe
1489152 v1.07.00/instmsia.exe
86016 v1.07.00/isetup.exe
1439 v1.07.00/manifest.txt
3900 v1.07.00/readme.txt
61440 v1.07.00/setup.exe
61765 v1.07.00/setup.ini
8880442 v1.07.00/voodoo3-10700.zip
441804 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfx16v3.drv
1291776 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfx32v3.dll
1145968 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfxOGL.dll
1105408 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfxSpl2.dll
1105408 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfxSpl3.dll
406 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfxdrv.ini
19554 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfxis16.DLL
16386 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfxis32.DLL
311975 v1.07.00/driver9x/3dfxv3.vxd
49152 v1.07.00/driver9x/Setup.exe
25106 v1.07.00/driver9x/Vgartd.vxd
26587 v1.07.00/driver9x/Voodoo3.inf
239104 v1.07.00/driver9x/glide2x.dll
259776 v1.07.00/driver9x/glide2x.ovl
329728 v1.07.00/driver9x/glide3x.dll
73728 v1.07.00/driver9x/install.exe
5833 v1.07.00/driver9x/license.txt
266293 v1.07.00/driver9x/msvcrt.dll
10920 v1.07.00/driver9x/voodoo3.cat
23160 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Dut
21124 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Eng
24188 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Esp
23626 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Fra
23965 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Ger
26272 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Ita
23808 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Por
25697 v1.07.00/driver9x/Help/3dfx Voodoo3 Help.Swe
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/Drivers/Video/3DFX Voodoo3/v1.07.00"
2026/03/06 18:14:27 ERROR : error listing: directory not found
2026/03/06 18:14:27 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: directory not found
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/Programs/Games/Age of Empires/Patch/"
1025312 v1.0c/AOEPATCH.EXE
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/Programs/Games/Age of Empires/Patch/v1.0c/"
2026/03/06 18:28:56 ERROR : error listing: directory not found
2026/03/06 18:28:56 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: directory not found
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe mkdir "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/v1.0c"
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/v1.0c"
2026/03/06 18:46:37 ERROR : error listing: directory not found
2026/03/06 18:46:37 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: directory not found
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/v1.0c"
2026/03/06 19:08:25 ERROR : error listing: directory not found
2026/03/06 19:08:25 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: directory not found
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe mkdir "Dropbox-Chris-Hasher:Finances/v1.0c"
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "Dropbox-Chris-Hasher:Finances/v1.0c"
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
[Dropbox-Chris]
type = dropbox
token = {"access_token":"****","expiry":"2026-03-06T22:50:17.7663643-05:00","expires_in":14400}
[Dropbox-Chris-Hasher]
type = hasher
remote = Dropbox-Chris:
hashes = dropbox
[OneDrive-Chris]
type = onedrive
token = {"access_token":"****","expiry":"2026-03-06T20:08:20.599521-05:00","expires_in":3599}
drive_id = B409B1509B4EBE6F
drive_type = personal
[OneDrive-Chris-Hasher]
type = hasher
remote = OneDrive-Chris:
hashes = md5
A log from the command with the -vv flag
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/v1.0c" -vv
2026/03/06 19:11:10 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.73.1" starting with parameters ["rclone.exe" "ls" "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/v1.0c" "-vv"]
2026/03/06 19:11:10 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/v1.0c"
2026/03/06 19:11:10 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\cuppe\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2026/03/06 19:11:13 ERROR : error listing: directory not found
2026/03/06 19:11:13 DEBUG : 4 go routines active
2026/03/06 19:11:13 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: directory not found
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/Drivers/Video/3DFX Voodoo3/v1.07.00/" -vv
2026/03/06 19:12:01 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.73.1" starting with parameters ["rclone.exe" "ls" "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/Drivers/Video/3DFX Voodoo3/v1.07.00/" "-vv"]
2026/03/06 19:12:01 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/Drivers/Video/3DFX Voodoo3/v1.07.00/"
2026/03/06 19:12:01 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\cuppe\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2026/03/06 19:12:05 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/Drivers/Video/3DFX Voodoo3/v1.07.00/" to be canonical "OneDrive-Chris:Windows/Drivers/Video/3DFX Voodoo3/v1.07.00"
2026/03/06 19:12:05 ERROR : error listing: directory not found
2026/03/06 19:12:05 DEBUG : 4 go routines active
2026/03/06 19:12:05 NOTICE: Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: directory not found
EDIT: More Information
Other directories that have periods/dots in the name don’t have this issue.
Example:
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/Drivers/ASPI/Adaptec/V4.60"
8719 ASPI32.PNG
180401 ASPI4ALL.EXE
7714 ASPI4ALL.PNG
28160 ASPICHK.EXE
9618 N-CHK.PNG
9040 O-CHK.PNG
630 _-SLC-_.txt
141 file_id.diz
4838 index.html
C:\Users\cuppe>rclone.exe ls "OneDrive-Chris-Hasher:Windows/3.11"
1474560 Disk01.img
1474560 Disk02.img
1474560 Disk03.img
1474560 Disk04.img
1474560 Disk05.img
1474560 Disk06.img
1474560 Disk07.img
1474560 Disk08.img
691 winworldpc.com.txt
182114 artwork/media-disk01.jpg
191264 artwork/media-disk02.jpg
193576 artwork/media-disk03.jpg
170496 artwork/media-disk04.jpg
168440 artwork/media-disk05.jpg
167082 artwork/media-disk06.jpg
169399 artwork/media-disk07.jpg
169050 artwork/media-disk08.jpg