Rclone copy: Save files as Google Drive File ID instead of File Name

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Hello,

Does rclone support copying a file from Google Drive with the name being the id instead of the file name?

Thanks!

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Not at the moment.

Why do you need that?

If you use the latest beta then you can use rclone lsf --csv --format pi to get a mapping of path names to IDs if that helps.

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Copying GDocs to PDFs in a specific target folder to Amazon S3, the S3 file URLs will then be referenced on sites. File names of said files could change by other people, so I would rather the URL be s3bucket/googlefileid.pdf to avoid the problem. I was messing around with the latest beta and using some powershell with lsf --format pi, that should suit my needs to match and rename first then copy to S3.

Thanks!

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Wrote a quick PowerShell script to accomplish what I needed. Originally tried keys/values in a hashtable, but ran into an edge case when matching filenames with illegal NTFS characters. Rclone seems to use a similar but different character for (in this case /) when copying these to the local filesystem.

Here is the script if it helps anyone else: https://gist.github.com/bondurantdt/8afcb3a392500695bdc32ddc57d3881a

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It does yes… It translates / into a similar looking unicode equivalent since you can’t have / in a file name on any OS whereas you can on google drive.

Glad you got it working!