Rclone & Google Team drives using service account and DomainWide Delegation won't list all TeamDrives

Hi,

Since two days I try to get it to work to be able to list and to backup all current and future Google Team drives using rclone. especially them Where I am not a member of. I followed this guide Google drive

I Created a Google Project, service account, enabled the drive api, created the delegatio for the new project, first time read scope and then also tried read and write and yes I also switched the scope on the rclone side.

But I always get a list of just Team drives I am a member of but not all the others ;-(

Is this even possible or what do I miss here ?

Run the command 'rclone version' and share thde full output of the command.

rclone v1.70.2

  • os/version: debian 12.11 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 6.12.33-production+truenas (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.23.5
  • go/linking: dynamic
  • go/tags: none

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

Google Drive > Team Drives

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

 rclone backend drives gdrive-admin:

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[gdrive-admin]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_file = /root/project12.json
impersonate = XXX
use_domain_admin_access = true

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

This will just list the Drives I am a memeber of not all the others I need to catch. 
rclone backend drives gdrive-admin: -vv
2026/05/08 13:09:43 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.70.2" starting with parameters ["rclone" "backend" "drives" "gdrive-admin:" "-vv"]
2026/05/08 13:09:43 DEBUG : Using config file from "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"

welcome to the forum,

please update rclone to latest version and test again.

Ok. so it is a version related issue ?

The thing is running on Truenas Scale appliance ./

mostly likely that is not the issue.

v1.70.2 is 13 versions behind the latest version
no way to know, until you update.


sorry, maybe i missed it, but did not see that in the rclone docs?

Updated to the most recent version:

rclone v1.74.0

  • os/version: almalinux 10.0 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 7.0.0-3-pve (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.26.2
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

and still see just the Team version where I am a memeber of not the others ;-(

It misses something on the google side and or on the rclone side or rclone is not able to do that ?

sorry, maybe i missed it, but did not see that in the rclone docs?

This variable “use_domain_admin_access" is indeed wrong but not part of the issue.

For everyone who struggles with the same issue; It is an google thing not rclone…

Even if u use an service account with DomaiWideDelegation and impersonate with the super admin account > IF the super admin is not part of the Team drive it simple won’t work !