Transfered 10.000 photos to google photos and they disappeared!

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Recently I used the "move" command to transfer about 10k pictures from my google drive to my google photos.

The thing is - I transfered those files to photos root directory. I used the following command:

rclone move "normal:tobetransfered" "photos:tobetransfered"

A couple days after letting Rclone run, I saw that all my files in the "tobetransfered" folder weren't there. Then I went to google photos and couldn't find them.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

C:\Users\Lucas>rclone version
rclone v1.65.0

  • os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 10.0.19045.3693 (x86_64)
  • os/type: windows
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.21.4
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: cmount

Which cloud storage system are you using?

Google Drive and Google Photos

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone move "normal:tobetransfered" "photos:tobetransfered"

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

C:\Users\Lucas>rclone config redacted

[normal]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive =

[photos]
type = google photos
token = XXX
### Double check the config for sensitive info before posting publicly

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

Paste  log here

welcome to the forum,

when you want that command, was any output at all?

try to find the files using
rclone ls photos: -vv

thanks!

when you want that command, was any output at all?

Not that I remember.. It was just "loading" and by the end of it it gave me the option to add another command.

try to find the files using
rclone ls photos: -vv

I tried! I exported the ls to a .txt file and searched for a specific file that should be there, and couldn't find it.

Is it possible that all that I moved into Photos was deleted because it wasn't moved into any album or "upload" folder?

you did not mention, if you checked the trash folders?

no, based on the rclone docs and the output below.
but i am not an expert with gphotos, so others might have different opinion.

rclone move c:\data\rclone\zork googlephotos: -vv --retries=1
DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.65.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "move" "C:\\data\\rclone\\zork" "googlephotos:" "-vv" "--retries=1"]
DEBUG : file.png: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
DEBUG : file.png: Update: src=file.png
DEBUG : file.png: >Update: err=can't upload files here
ERROR : file.png: Failed to copy: can't upload files here
ERROR : file.png: Not deleting source as copy failed: can't upload files here

TLDR: I'm an idiot - rclone created a local folder since I didn't use ":". The photos were in my local PC all along. Thanks a lot for the support asdffdsa

you did not mention, if you checked the trash folders?

Yes I did! They are not there.

DEBUG : file.png: >Update: err=can't upload files here

Hmm this is very weird. Maybe it was allowed to move and then it was deleted?

To test this, I just tried to move another random picture using the same command - now with -vv. This is the result I got:

C:\Users\Lucas>rclone move "normal:todas as fotos" "photos" -P -vv
2023/12/04 21:50:38 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.65.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "move" "normal:todas as fotos" "photos" "-P" "-vv"]
2023/12/04 21:50:38 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "normal:todas as fotos"
2023/12/04 21:50:38 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\Users\Lucas\AppData\Roaming\rclone\rclone.conf"
2023/12/04 21:50:38 DEBUG : Google drive root 'todas as fotos': 'root_folder_id = 0AFuj4fTi0oOSUk9PVA' - save this in the config to speed up startup
2023/12/04 21:50:38 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "photos"
2023/12/04 21:50:38 NOTICE: "photos" refers to a local folder, use "photos:" to refer to your remote or "./photos" to hide this warning
2023/12/04 21:50:38 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "photos" to be canonical "//?/C:/Users/Lucas/photos"
2023/12/04 21:50:39 DEBUG : 20171005_124510.jpg: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2023/12/04 21:50:39 DEBUG : Local file system at //?/C:/Users/Lucas/photos: Waiting for checks to finish
2023/12/04 21:50:39 DEBUG : Local file system at //?/C:/Users/Lucas/photos: Waiting for transfers to finish
2023/12/04 21:50:42 DEBUG : 20171005_124510.jpg: md5 = f3929656cb5f88db929a3b7223d3c203 OK
2023/12/04 21:50:42 DEBUG : 20171005_124510.jpg.facokoj4.partial: renamed to: 20171005_124510.jpg
2023/12/04 21:50:42 INFO : 20171005_124510.jpg: Copied (new)
2023/12/04 21:50:43 INFO : 20171005_124510.jpg: Deleted
Transferred: 3.008 MiB / 3.008 MiB, 100%, 1.005 MiB/s, ETA 0s
Checks: 2 / 2, 100%
Deleted: 1 (files), 0 (dirs)
Renamed: 1
Transferred: 1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time: 4.8s
2023/12/04 21:50:43 INFO :
Transferred: 3.008 MiB / 3.008 MiB, 100%, 1.005 MiB/s, ETA 0s
Checks: 2 / 2, 100%
Deleted: 1 (files), 0 (dirs)
Renamed: 1
Transferred: 1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time: 4.8s

2023/12/04 21:50:43 DEBUG : 7 go routines active

C:\Users\Lucas>

right, rclone copied the file to a local subfolder

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