Real time mount between Windows and Google Cloud Storage

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I just installed rclone and winfsp yesterday so I can mount our Google Cloud Storage to our Windows server to host our static files. When I run rcloud.exe mount remote://storage-bucket/upload/ C://Users/dean/Desktop/upload it works but the problem is when I put news files in Google Cloud Storage it does not get reflected on C://Users/dean/Desktop/upload but if I put news files in C://Users/dean/Desktop/upload it quickly reflects on Google Cloud Storage.

I wish every file operation on Google Cloud Storage to quickly take effect on the mounted folder in my Windows

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Google cloud storage doesn't support change notify so to see new files you will need to wait until the directory cache expires - see --dir-cache-time this is 1 minute by default.

You can also tell rclone to refresh the directory cache using the remote control: Remote Control / API

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hello and welcome to the forum,
@ncw, hi, as per the docs, the default is 5m0s

--dir-cache-time duration                Time to cache directory entries for. (default 5m0s)

to enable refresh for your mount, try this
rclone.exe mount remote://storage-bucket/upload/ C://Users/dean/Desktop/upload --dir-cache-time=1m --rc

and to perform a refresh, try this
rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true --fast-list

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Hi Nick,

Thank you for the guide. I really am new to rclone.. So after the cache expires, I need to manually do a refresh so the files will be reflected to my windows? It can not behave something like Docker's bind mount where the volume and host will automatically reflect each other

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Hi asdffdsa,

Thank you for welcoming me. The 5 minute cache time duration explains why I need to wait for some time until I hit the refresh button on my windows directory/folder GUI until changes are reflected. So like I have asked Nick, I need to manually do a refresh whether folder GUI or vfs/refresh so the new files will be reflected to my windows?

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no, you will not.

this is useful for certain situations.
lets' say that i have a set of folders on a remote in the cloud, storing multimedia.
i make a bunch of changes, upload new media, etc.
now, i need to have my media server, rescan that set of folders.
to speed up the local media server's scanning, i will do the vfs/refresh.
and then i have the media server rescan.

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If you have an explorer window open then you'll likely need to refresh it (I think - not 100% sure as I'm not a Windows user), if that is what you mean?

There isn't a mechanism for GCS to tell rclone files have changed, and there isn't a mechanism for rclone mount to tell explorer things have changed (since FUSE file systems don't support inotify or similar).

If you don't want to wait 5 minutes, you can reduce that time, or you can run the vfs/refresh remote control command.

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Just would like to inform everyone that I was ablt to fix my concern with adding --dir-cache-time="0" alone like rcloud.exe mount --dir-cache-time="0" remote://storage-bucket/upload/ C://Users/dean/Desktop/upload

I would like to thank you both for your help :slight_smile:

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