Uploaded using rclone to Google Drive, now need to change permissions

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Hi all,

We recently uploaded quite a few terabytes of data to our Google Drive using rclone - it worked perfectly. While I know that rclone can easily do things like list remote directories, it appears rclone is unable to change sharing permissions for files/direcories in Google Drive. Does anyone know if this is possible with rclone, and if not, does anyone have a suggestion for another command line tool that can be scripted to change permissions for directories on Google Drive? I ask because we have thousands of folders in our Archive in which we need to change the permissions for one specific subfolder.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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If I’m not mistaken, no way to change permissions at this point:

You can use the mask and such but I don’t think there is a solution to your one folder scenario as the mount parameters are global changes.

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That is correct.

I believe that gdrive can do that, but I haven’t tried it myself.

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Hi all,

Thanks for the suggestions. I did find gdrive as well, hoping it will do the job. Wasn’t sure if anyone else had had any experiences with this before or if I was missing something from the rclone documentation that would allow this.

Thanks again.