Specific folder in the configuration file

hfornazier · February 8, 2020, 5:24pm

Hello,

Would it be possible in the configuration file to only inform a specific folder? avoiding access to the entire cloud?
example:

[remote]
client_id =
client_secret =
token = {"access_token": "XXX", "token_type": "bearer", "expiry": "0001-01-01T00: 00: 00Z"}
folder = / Doctos

Thanks!

Pal_Toth · February 8, 2020, 6:08pm

I think this is the "root_folder_id = " in your config file. Look what your browser shows you on that specific folder. example if you have a folder called Doctos and you go in that folder in your browser you see that in the address bar: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/blablabla000000blablabla
so your root_folder_id = blablabla000000blablabla
so you mount on your gdrive that folder not the root folder.

hfornazier · February 8, 2020, 7:22pm

Thanks for the answer.
I'm sorry I didn't inform you before, in my case I use PCloud, but this option doesn't seem to be available.

hfornazier · February 8, 2020, 8:09pm

I wanted this option for ICloud and OneDrive. I believe that for OneDrive you don't have that option either!

Animosity022 · February 8, 2020, 9:34pm

Just make an alias remote for it:

https://rclone.org/alias/

hfornazier · February 8, 2020, 10:22pm

Thanks again.

This parameter is interesting, but the main source needs to be exposed in rclone.config to work.

This way, another user will be able to access the entire cloud.

On the PC where I run my backups, another user can open the configuration file and access all folders using the main source.

[pcloudClients]
type = pcloud
token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}

[client01]
type = alias
remote = pcloudClients:/CLIENT01

Thanks!

Animosity022 · February 8, 2020, 10:37pm

If the cloud provider doesn't support it, not sure what rclone would do.

If the rclone.conf had a folder defined, the user can just configure another one without it and have access since the user needs to be able to read the rclone.conf file.

Can you share a folder with said user and just point to that?

https://www.pcloud.com/help/ios-help-center/how-can-i-share-folders-with-others

Not sure as I have never used pCloud but that would work fine with Google Drive.

hfornazier · February 8, 2020, 10:53pm

Animosity022, His idea was great ...

I did the following:
I created a free trial account. I shared the folder I want with this new account and created a configuration for Rclone.

The Shared folder is displayed in the test account, so I think it is possible to read and write to it.
If it works it will be an option.

I'm going to do more tests this weekend.
If all goes well, I post here to help other users with the same need.

Thanks Again!

hfornazier · February 9, 2020, 4:23pm

Another detail, for developers ..

On PCloud, RClone has / root access and it is possible to start from a folder.
Each folder (has an ID, a sequence of numbers), where the root is 0 (zero).

I believe that if this sequence is entered in rclone.config it could be started from it, or even using the initial name of a specific folder.

Thanks!

ncw · February 10, 2020, 9:08am

You are right I think... Fancy working up a pull request for that?

hfornazier · February 10, 2020, 11:55am

Yes absolutely yes,
what do you need? where should i post? I did a little test in php using the PCloud API, see an image.

That would be incredible for my need! Thank you!

ncw · February 10, 2020, 5:02pm

What you need to do is make this

github.com

rclone/rclone/blob/5c869d5bd301b932acbd66bffebb28ef668b57cb/backend/pcloud/pcloud.go#L45


	"github.com/rclone/rclone/lib/rest"
	"golang.org/x/oauth2"
)


const (
	rcloneClientID              = "DnONSzyJXpm"
	rcloneEncryptedClientSecret = "ej1OIF39VOQQ0PXaSdK9ztkLw3tdLNscW2157TKNQdQKkICR4uU7aFg4eFM"
	minSleep                    = 10 * time.Millisecond
	maxSleep                    = 2 * time.Second
	decayConstant               = 2    // bigger for slower decay, exponential
	rootID                      = "d0" // ID of root folder is always this
	rootURL                     = "https://api.pcloud.com"
)


// Globals
var (
	// Description of how to auth for this app
	oauthConfig = &oauth2.Config{
		Scopes: nil,
		Endpoint: oauth2.Endpoint{
			AuthURL:  "https://my.pcloud.com/oauth2/authorize",

into a config variable.

That should be reasonably straight forward....

hfornazier · February 10, 2020, 5:34pm

Excuse me, but I don't understand ... you say put "rootID" in my rclone.config?
I had already tried it, but it didn't work.
Thanks!

Rclone Version: v1.51.0

[pcloudtest]
type = pcloud
token = {"access_token":"xxxxx","token_type":"bearer","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
rootID = "d3602202600"

[pcloudtest]
type = pcloud
token = {"access_token":"xxxxx","token_type":"bearer","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
rootID = "3602202600"

ncw · February 11, 2020, 11:37am

It needs some code changes. I was wondering if you wanted to work on them?

hfornazier · February 11, 2020, 12:19pm

I would like it very much, but my knowledge of the language is very limited ... Would there be any possibility of putting this functionality in a future version of RClone?

This week I will resume my studies in GO. I believe that in some time I can contribute more to this wonderful project!

Thanks!

ncw · February 11, 2020, 2:22pm

Can you please make a new issue on github about this. I'll write instructions on what needs to be done then you or someone else can have a go at implementing it

hfornazier · February 11, 2020, 4:40pm

Ok ... today I'm going to create a post to request this resource, with more details.

Today I also created a GO environment to continue analyzing how I can help with this task.

Thank you one more time!

hfornazier · February 11, 2020, 5:02pm

I already created the post ... I'm following it!
Thanks!

hfornazier · February 12, 2020, 2:50pm

Am I getting this message when compiling, any suggestions?
Thanks!

build github.com/rclone/rclone: cannot load archive/zip: malformed module path "
archive/zip": missing dot in first path element

ncw · February 12, 2020, 8:54pm

Not sure! Can you describe what you did while building?