rclone sync
seems to be needlessly creating empty and excluded folders. The expected behavior is not clearly documented, but I suspect this is a bug. I cannot see any reason why rclone
should be creating these folders.
I’m using the command rclone sync . GDrive:/docBackups -vv -u --ignore-case --filter "+ *.doc*" --filter "- *" --filter "- */"
to recursively copy all MS Word documents to Google Drive. The command successfully copies all of the MS Word documents, but it also creates folders that are empty or that only contain files other than MS Word documents.
It seems to me that rclone sync
should only create folder paths for actual files to be synced to the destination, especially since I am trying to otherwise exclude directories using --filter "- */"
. Is there some other way to accomplish the goal of not creating empty folders?
I’ve also tested this when syncing from Google Drive to my local machine (Windows), and the same behavior occurs. I have not tested with other cloud storage providers.