Sync to dropbox allways shows 1 file transfered

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Usng rclone 1.35 to sync to dropbox;

here is the command am using

./rclone sync dropbox: --dropbox-chunk-size=150M

here is the output

2017/03/17 10:53:22 Dropbox root ‘’: Waiting for checks to finish
2017/03/17 10:53:22 Dropbox root ‘’: Waiting for transfers to finish
2017/03/17 10:53:24 Waiting for deletions to finish
2017/03/17 10:53:24
Transferred: 23.643 kBytes (1.259 kBytes/s)
Errors: 0
Checks: 8290
Transferred: 1
Elapsed time: 18.7s

Even after running the sync multiple times, rclone still shows trasfered 1 and the transfered kBytes keep changing. By using --verbose flag found that one .jpeg file is getting transfered everytime.

2017/03/17 11:00:10 share/ref/References/sword.jpg: Copied (new)

Any reason why it is getting transfered even though it is existing in the Dropbox ?
Not breaking anything but just want to confirm if am missing any flags to sync.

Btw, fantastic piece of software.
Thanks @ncw and other devs for the amazing work!

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Strange!

Are there by any chance two files in the same directory which differ only by case? Eg Sword.jpg and sword.jpg? That would explain it.

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You are freaking awesome! Exactly, I have sword.jpg and Sword.jpg.
Since dropbox is case insensitive I guess its transfering and overwriting the same file on each upload ?

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Yes that is right - hence the differing transfer sizes.

The only solution I’ve got for this is to rename one of the two files.

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Thanks for the help!