What causes "Failed to copy: mkdir \\?: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."?

Failed to copy: mkdir \?: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect??

In the error message all the directories are seperated by /
and I’m on windows so they need to be a backslash
but rclone has always figured that out for me in the past?

edit: I’ll mention that simply creating the directory myself fixed all the errors.

I think that is likely https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1754 which should have been fixed in go1.10 but it seems to have missed the fix window so it will be fixed in go1.11 which will be released in August or so…

I’ve just added an rclone compiled with the go dev compiler to that issue which should fix this problem - would appreciate it if you’d give it a test :slight_smile:

I have this issue and would be glad to test it. Any particular build, or just the latest beta?

Try this build https://github.com/ncw/rclone/files/1866417/rclone-v1.40-032-geca99b33.zip

Unfortunately go1.11 hasn’t been released yet so the above is a special build with a development compiler.

Thanks for that. It may be a day or so, the rate limiting on gDrive is really cramping my style, btw, thanks for all the good work. I’m running stable 1.41, maybe an occasional beta built with the go dev compiler for those facing this issue. ;>)

That seams to be a fix, Thanks a lot.

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