Server side copy - File not found

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Can't do Drive to Drive copy

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.53.1

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

linux/amd64
go1.15

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone -v copy Team:test Joe:

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[Team]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = 
team_drive = 
root_folder_id = 
server_side_across_configs = true

[Joe]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = 
team_drive = 
root_folder_id = 
server_side_across_configs = true

A log from the command with the -vv flag

rclone -v copy Team:test Joe:
2020/09/19 09:32:59 ERROR : test.7z: Failed to copy: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 1srcmWDbzikzLjXfZBOAbrIVNSNwBZjWR., notFound
2020/09/19 09:32:59 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2020/09/19 09:32:59 ERROR : Attempt 1/3 failed with 1 errors and: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 1srcmWDbzikzLjXfZBOAbrIVNSNwBZjWR., notFound
2020/09/19 09:33:00 ERROR : test.7z: Failed to copy: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 1srcmWDbzikzLjXfZBOAbrIVNSNwBZjWR., notFound
2020/09/19 09:33:00 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2020/09/19 09:33:00 ERROR : Attempt 2/3 failed with 1 errors and: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 1srcmWDbzikzLjXfZBOAbrIVNSNwBZjWR., notFound
2020/09/19 09:33:01 ERROR : test.7z: Failed to copy: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 1srcmWDbzikzLjXfZBOAbrIVNSNwBZjWR., notFound
2020/09/19 09:33:01 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2020/09/19 09:33:01 ERROR : Attempt 3/3 failed with 1 errors and: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 1srcmWDbzikzLjXfZBOAbrIVNSNwBZjWR., notFound
2020/09/19 09:33:01 INFO  :
Transferred:             0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Errors:                 1 (retrying may help)
Elapsed time:         4.6s

2020/09/19 09:33:01 Failed to copy: googleapi: Error 404: File not found: 1srcmWDbzikzLjXfZBOAbrIVNSNwBZjWR., notFound

If you are going to do server side, the source account needs write permissions in the destination as it's done server side.

If you turn off server side, you don't need this.

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I think it is the other way round, the destination account needs read permissions on the source.

I'm not at my computer at the moment so I can't check it the source!

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How do I give read/write permission to the source account? From website sharing settings?

@ncw is correct as I stated it backwards.

Before you go to far, I'd check this out:

As I don't think it's worth going through the effort..

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