Struggling with Drive and "Failed to create file system for...."

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I’m trying to get up and running with rclone and Google Drive. I’ve successfully set up a remote using the auto-config tool, named “spd”, but trying to get a directory listing is failing for me. I’ve tried the following

➜  ~ rclone lsd spd:   
2018/09/25 18:18:53 Failed to create file system for "spd:": didn't find section in config file
➜  ~ rclone lsd spd 
2018/09/25 18:18:55 ERROR : : error listing: directory not found
2018/09/25 18:18:55 Failed to lsd: directory not found
➜  ~ rclone lsd spd:.
2018/09/25 18:18:58 Failed to create file system for "spd:.": didn't find section in config file
➜  ~ rclone lsd spd:/
2018/09/25 18:19:12 Failed to create file system for "spd:/": didn't find section in config file
➜  ~ rclone lsd "spd:/My Drive"
2018/09/25 18:19:18 Failed to create file system for "spd:/My Drive": didn't find section in config file

Other useful info:

cat /home/user/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
[spd]
client_id = 
client_secret = 
token = {"access_token":"blabla","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"bla","expiry":"2018-09-25T18:48:32.273172257+02:00"}

I’m on latest Linux mint w/ ext4 home partition. I had previously installed the one from ubuntu, 1.3 something, and then manually upgraded to latest version. rclone version gives me:

rclone v1.43.1
- os/arch: linux/amd64
- go version: go1.11

Any help would be appreciated!

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It looks like rclone isn’t finding your config file…

What does rclone config file print and what does rclone listremotes print?

3

Thanks for getting back to me.

Config and remotes were fine, but you gave me an idea.

➜ ~ rm /home/myuser/.config/rclone/rclone.conf

Turned out to be an error in the configuration process. I deleted the config file, reconfigured, and noticed that there was no type or scope set for my remote (a google drive remote). The previous time I ran the configuration (on 1.3x something), I ran into some troubles and perhaps it didn’t complete successfully. Now I have these additional lines in my config.

type = drive
scope = drive

Woo hoo! thanks for the help.

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No probs! I should have noticed that type = drive was missing in your config - that was the cause of the problem I think.