What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
latest rclone v1.53.1
Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)
Win 10, 64 bit
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Google Drive
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
[mdrive]
type = drive
client_id = xxx
client_secret = yyy
service_account_file =
token = zzz
root_folder_id = vvv
[trash]
type = drive
client_id = xxx
client_secret = yyy
service_account_file =
token = zzz
root_folder_id = vvv
trashed_only = true
[mcrypt]
type = crypt
remote = mdrive:backup
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password = www
password2 =
[trashcrypt]
type = crypt
remote = trash:backup
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password = www
password2 =
What is the problem you are having with rclone?
There are several.
Issue 1:
A sync went bad and a folder structure within a folder on mcrypt, like mcrypt:/a was accidentally deleted.
To support server side move/copy, I issued all commmands with trash:/ as source and mdrive:/ as dest.
I identified the corresponding folders using lsd --crypt-show-mapping.
let's say mcrypt:/a/b is a folder I want to revocer that was mdrive:/backup/c/d in encrypted form, I first tried with this command:
rclone move trash:/backup/c/d mdrive:/backup/c/d --drive-server-side-across-configs -v
Logs show moving seemingly successful with "Moved (server side)"
However on mdrive or mcrypt, only the folder shows up but is empty. trash or trashcrypt still show the files there.
Next I tried was creating a new empty folder mcrypt:/a/e that is mdrive:/backup/c/f encrypted. I then issued this command:
rclone move trash:/backup/c/d mdrive:/backup/c/f --drive-server-side-across-configs -v
Again seemingly successful, rclone showing "Moved (server side)" the folder mcrypt:/a/e and mdrive:/backup/c/f show empty.
trash:/backup/c/d shows empty. Files gone?
I go ahead and delete the "empty" folder mcrypt:/a/e
Now when I list trash:/backup/c/f, all the files show up.
So it seems the move took place, but the files are still kind of flagged as deleted by the system.
Doing a copy however works as intended:
rclone copy trash:/backup/c/d mdrive:/backup/c/d --drive-server-side-across-configs -v
show Copied (server side copy) and the files actually show up on mdrive:/backup/c/d and trash:/backup/c/d shows as empty.
So Question to issue 1 is: Can recovery be done with the move command?
Issue 2:
I discovered that the sync was bad when I tried to update a folder that no longer existed and then went to check the upload.
Say there was a mcrypt:/a/g folder with several subfolders mcrypt:/a/g/a1, mcrypt:/a/g/a2 etc.
I copied some new content that created mcrypt:/a/g/b1, mcrypt:/a/g/b2 etc.
At the time of the "update" the whole folder mcrypt:/a/g was gone to the bad sync
This is where it gets weird.
rclone lsd trashcrypt:/a
now shows 2 identical folders, both with the name trashcrypt:/a/g.
Looking at the date, one is 2 years old where the original folder was creaded, the other is just a few hours old of the time I did the supposedly update.
When I enter the folder, both show the same mcrypt:/a/g/b1, mcrypt:/a/g/b2 etc.
I did no deletions in or of the mcrypt:/a/g/ folder after the "update". I'm 100% sure of that.
So my question is, how can I recover the original mcrypt:/a/g/a1, mcrypt:/a/g/a2 etc. folders?
Issue 3:
This is probably totally unrelated, but when I recovered a subfolder of mcrypt:/a with the copy command I closely inspected if all files are there.
That was when I realized that 2 out of ~300 files are listed double.
Doing
rclone lsf "mcrypt:/a/h" >out.txt
I find 2 pairs of identical lines.
I suspect this might have already been the case before the deletion but the question is how to get rid of the dupe and how this can happen in the first place.
