I need rclone mount google drive settings which is suitable for filebot .( For those who don't know , Filebot is a tool for organizing and renaming your Movies, TV Shows ) . I did searched for this topic on forum but all of the posts are regarding mount settings for a media server only , so asking it right here.
First off I don't think it is a good idea to just start using my rclone mount emby settings for filebot too . Here the aim is not media streaming but its different.. lemme highlight the main points which i am looking for
Filebot should be able to read and write properly to the rclone mount ( copy , move , delete , rename ). It should be able do to all of these without getting any permission errors )
Unlike the usual settings we use for plex/emby , there should be no caching of any sort . I mean each and every change that is done to the google drive remote should be reflected instantly in the mount ( or atleast as soon as possible as per google api )
i have noticed that typically rclone mount doesn't display duplicate folders .if there's a way or some flag in rclone using which we can have the duplicate folders displayed ,that would be great as i ideally need filebot to read the exact content of my google drive
rclone will get permission errors only if you do not set the permissions correctly so not sure why think that would be a problem
why not have multiple mounts pointing to the same remote, as i do that all the time.
for my media files, i have two mounts.
one mount for optimized for streaming/scanning with a cache, one mount for optimized for copying without a cache.
local file systems to not support duplicates file names and duplicate folders names.
how do you propose working around that limitation?
gid , dir perms , file perms , umask, vfs cache writes !! Do i need to use any of these flags to give filebot proper read and write access to my drive mount ( copy , move , delete & rename )
Can you share the settings for the mount optimised for copying ?
As far as i know , even the very basic rclone mount remote:/mnt will have some cache by default . I am not sure what all flags i should use with 0 as value
I didn't knew that was a local filesystem limitation , seems i will have to let go off this thing .i will manage the duplicates using drive web UI or drive app
https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-cache-mode-off. default is off. try a mount with and without cache and see which one copies better for your situation. it depends on the local program doing the copying.
whenever i can, i use rclone copy, not rclone mount
google has a program that i think does mount or something equivalent, how does it deal with duplicates?
I do all my filebot renaming locally, unless I forget before upload or need to edit something later on. For those occasions, I use a normal read-write mount without any flags.
Thanks to all the suggestions here , i am currently using these settings .Seems to work well just there's one issue
It doesn't let me delete folders sometimes