Is there a way to change the location of where it RClone caches files or just simply load the entire file to RAM? I have an SSD as my C drive, and I want to cache files before transferring them to my Google Drive which I have mounted an encrypted but I don’t want to put my SSD through that many writes, plus it has almost no storage space left. If I choose not to cache them, the file transfer takes ages. Any help is much appreciated.
By default rclone doesn’t cache anything on disk.
What’s the command you are using?
–vfs-cache-mode=writes
He uses it under Windows and the mount command was simply: rclone mount cryptmount:/ Q:
But with this, the upload was really slow, around 2 MB/s, so he turned on the vfs cache in writes mode. Is there a way to change where to write the temp buffer?
Also, what are the optimal flags for Windows? I just did some benchmarks and if it’s mounted, all the file operations through Explorer are slow. Rclone copy works like a charm however.
(PS: had to reply instead of him because he is a new user and the forum won’t let him post before a mod review) nvm
If you are using writes, it’s --cache-dir for the location of the files.
https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#file-caching
Any file that writes will be dropped there first.
Thanks so much that was a HUGE help and it worked perfectly!