Rclone move - is there a way to transfer n files or get --max-transfer to complete the last file?

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I’m trying to limit how long rclone move runs on some of my HDDs. I could use --max-transfer, but I hate the idea of say being 1MB away from finishing a 50GB file and the transfer ending abruptly.

Is there a way to:

(i) tell move to finish the last file.Or,
(ii) tell move to transfer xx files. Or,
(iii) run move for xx mins and finish the last file, Or
(iv) other?

Thanks

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None of those are possible yet :frowning:

A graceful finish of --max-transfer would be nice. I just looked at the code and it is using errors to signal the finish… For a graceful restart, I could make it only signal the error if no bytes had been read - that would probably work. This would need another flag --graceful maybe.

What do you think - sound interesting? If you think so then please make a new issue on github and I’ll have a go!

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Thanks @ncw - that would do the trick. I’ll post an issue over the weekend

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