I ran rclone copy /my/directory remote -P
(not "remote:" just "remote")
Where did that transfer go? It's not in / or in my home directory... but it surely went somewhere.
In your current working direcoty in a folder called 'remote'
felix@gemini:~/test$ rclone copy /etc/hosts remote
felix@gemini:~/test$ ls -al
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 4 felix felix 84 Dec 16 15:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 felix felix 4096 Dec 16 15:49 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 221 Dec 12 15:48 blah
-rw-rw-r-- 1 felix felix 6 Dec 12 11:17 filter
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 221 Nov 29 10:03 hosts
drwxrwxr-x 2 felix felix 19 Dec 16 15:49 remote
drwxrwxr-x 4 felix felix 37 Dec 12 12:02 TEST
-rw-rw-r-- 1 felix felix 221 Nov 29 10:03 test1
felix@gemini:~/test$ ls -al remote
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 felix felix 19 Dec 16 15:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 felix felix 84 Dec 16 15:49 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 felix felix 227 Nov 29 12:21 hosts
nope... that was the first place I checked because that's what I understood the expected behavior to be...
It showed the copy speed as about 50MB/sec so I'm sure it was local, though.
Chances are, you aren't looking in the working directory were you ran the command as that's where it would have put it.
I showed via the output above what would happen. If you can produce something else, please share 
Well, I closed that terminal so I guess I can’t be sure. I looked around, can’t find it. I guess I just have an extra 5 gigs of wasted space now. Oops.
If you are certain you typed remote, you can check by something like
find / -type d -name remote
and you'd get something like:
felix@gemini:~$ find . -type d -name remote
./go/pkg/mod/cloud.google.com/go@v0.44.3/cmd/go-cloud-debug-agent/internal/debug/remote
./test/remote
The problem here is that rclone didn't recognize "remote" as a remote location because you didn't write "remote:" , so this is going to end up being treated as a local destination.
I sometimes make mistakes like that, and then my files usually end up in the same folder as rclone.exe
But I believe Animosity is correct that that is just because that happens to be the current working directory in my case.
It should be easy enough to find the files with a search.
Also I can't spell "where" and I feel even dumber.
Still haven't found those files though...
