rClone ERRORS OSX

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Trying to sync one folder to Dropbox, fails with errors related to ._DS_Store files
When I check my Dropbox no files have been sync'd

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

-->1.57.0

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Dropbox

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

I'm using RClone Browser rather than the command line
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sync with delete

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

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type = dropbox
token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxx","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxx","expiry":"2021-12-25T12:44:51.838865-05:00"}
client_id = xxxx
client_secret = xxxx```


#### A log from the command with the `-vv` flag  

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2021/12/25 08:46:20 ERROR : 21104 Williams/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:20 ERROR : 20059R Ambs Addn Rm/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:20 ERROR : 21055 Johnson LB Apt/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:20 ERROR : 21076 Glass/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:20 ERROR : 21091 Holland SFR/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:23 ERROR : 3962 Braithwaite Addn/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:23 ERROR : 4076 Carter Phase II/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:35 ERROR : Completed/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:35 ERROR : 20059R Ambs Addn Rm/Plots/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:46:35 ERROR : 20059R Ambs Addn Rm/Romac/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:47:36 ERROR : 3962 Braithwaite Addn/Details/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:47:43 ERROR : 3962 Braithwaite Addn/Plots/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:47:43 ERROR : Completed/19070 Schade Addition/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:47:55 ERROR : 3962 Braithwaite Addn/Property/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:47:55 ERROR : Completed/21024 Verduchi SFR/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:47:55 ERROR : Completed/20116 Ern SFR/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:47:55 ERROR : Completed/3462 Judkins Addition/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:24 ERROR : Completed/21024 Verduchi SFR/BFS truss/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:51 ERROR : Completed/20116 Ern SFR/Engineering/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:51 ERROR : Completed/3462 Judkins Addition/Plan Review/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:51 ERROR : Completed/20116 Ern SFR/Markups/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:51 ERROR : Completed/21024 Verduchi SFR/Revisions/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:51 ERROR : Completed/20116 Ern SFR/Site/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:51 ERROR : Completed/21024 Verduchi SFR/Revisions/Plan Review #2/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:48:51 ERROR : Completed/21024 Verduchi SFR/Revisions/Rev. 111621/.DS_Store: Failed to copy: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading
2021/12/25 08:49:53 ERROR : Dropbox root 'Jobs': not deleting directories as there were IO errors
2021/12/25 08:49:53 ERROR : Can't retry any of the errors - not attempting retries
2021/12/25 08:49:53 Failed to sync with 26 errors: last error was: file name ".DS_Store" is disallowed - not uploading```

Dropbox doesn't allow that to sync:

Thank You. I suppose the solution is to exclude those types of files…
If that folder was in my local Dropbox folder it must be ignored automatically by Dropbox…

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