The best config to mount Rclone to MacOS using Crypt and Dropbox

[Fluffy]

Hi, everyone!

At the moment I'm trying to find a good mix of parameters to make my Rclone mount to MacOS as fast and smooth as possible. At this moment my latest try was with:

rclone mount -vvv --allow-other --vfs-cache-mode full --checkers 16 --transfers 10 --dir-cache-time 180s --vfs-write-back 10s --vfs-write-back 60s --cache-dir /Users/jannicksohosted/cache --vfs-cache-max-age 600h --vfs-cache-max-size 2G --vfs-cache-poll-interval 1m --cache-info-age 60m --network-mode [crypt mount] [local folder]

Browsing the folders is fine, but Finder tries to generate for all the pictures in the folders a thumbnail, this results in a lot of requests to Dropbox to generate them. I thought --network-mode would eliminate this, but that's not the case.

Besides that the removal of a lot of single files is very slow, it takes like 3 seconds for 1 file to delete.

What is the config you use on MacOS and why?

Thank you!

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

hi,
hard to share good advice, as you did not answer the questions in the help and support template.

@Fluffy

--checkers 16

does not work on mounts.

@Fluffy

--cache-info-age 60m

should not be using the deprecated cache remote.

@Fluffy

--network-mode

does not work on macos

[kapitainsky]

In Finder you can disable thumbnails for specific folder - right click anywhere inside folder and choose `Show View Options"

[kapitainsky]

Have a look at this good example I quote often - well thought through and with comments:

animosity22/homescripts/blob/master/systemd/rclone-tv.service

also includes cache warming (via rc and vfs/refresh). This way for the cost of few minutes at the start you have remote you can browse as fast as local disk:)