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What is the problem you are having with rclone?
Previously when playing around with rclone and crypt I did some backup from my main server to gdrive, a lot of those files still remain, but I cannot see them in rclone \ mount, nor in the drive webui, unless I tell it to show large files
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.69.1
os/version: debian trixie/sid (64 bit)
os/kernel: 6.12.22-amd64 (x86_64)
os/type: linux
os/arch: amd64
go/version: go1.24.0
go/linking: static
go/tags: none
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
google drive + crypt
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
rclone ls gdrive:
rclone ls gdrivecrypt:
Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.
[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id = id
client_secret = secret
scope = drive
token = token
[gdrivecrypt]
type = crypt
remote = gdrive:
password = password
A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag
root@kakuzu:/home/eirikz# rclone ls gdrive:
root@kakuzu:/home/eirikz# rclone size gdrive:
Total objects: 0
Total size: 0 B (0 Byte)
root@kakuzu:/home/eirikz# rclone size gdrivecrypt:
Total objects: 0
Total size: 0 B (0 Byte)
root@kakuzu:/home/eirikz# rclone ls gdrivecrypt:
root@kakuzu:/home/eirikz#
It was originally uploaded from this exact client I believe, although I have been moving my rclone config between my two hosts for a few years.
root@kakuzu:/home/eirikz# rclone ls gdrive: -vv
2025/04/28 20:41:35 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.69.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "ls" "gdrive:" "-vv"]
2025/04/28 20:41:35 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "gdrive:"
2025/04/28 20:41:35 DEBUG : Using config file from "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2025/04/28 20:41:35 DEBUG : Google drive root '': 'root_folder_id = <stringhere>' - save this in the config to speed up startup
2025/04/28 20:41:35 DEBUG : 5 go routines active
root@kakuzu:/home/eirikz#
I did eventually go to the WEBUI, sort by large files, then delete them 32 at a time, and it appears to be cleaning up in the background SLOWLY, still a way to go.. but going down, still very strange that those files were not visible from anywhere execept there (API issue from google side?)
Pretty sure I found what the issue was, but not sure how I could have rectified it
Apparently I had a rclone copy script in crontab that did copy to gdrivecrypt:mirai i.e a bucket under the mount, which is why I couldn't see it, not sure if that is anyway supported or not.
do not mix crypted and non-crypted.
should follow rclone guidelines from rclone docs and rclone config
Remote to encrypt/decrypt.
Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
