I’m running rclone in Powershell but a simple copy/sync command is not properly finished. Most of my files as copied and kept as .partial.
As you can see in the log, some files are transferred correctly (100%) but others not. It seems that something is killing rclone process before it ends.
Even if I repeat the command many times, the .partial files are not completed. The files are not correctly copied.
I have tried many things, like removing my antivirus, Windows defender, etc.
Any help is more than welcome!!
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.72.1
os/version: Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 25H2 25H2 (64 bit)
os/kernel: 10.0.26200.7623 (x86_64)
os/type: windows
os/arch: amd64
go/version: go1.25.5
go/linking: static
go/tags: cmount
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Doing things in local
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
rclone copy D:\j\NerdFonts D:\j\newFolder -P -vv
Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.
No config as it local
A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag
> rclone sync D:\j\NerdFonts D:\j\newFolder -P -vv
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.72.1" starting with parameters ["C:\\Users\\xxx\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WinGet\\Packages\\Rclone.Rclone_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\\rclone-v1.72.1-windows-amd64\\rclone.exe" "sync" "D:\\j\\NerdFonts" "D:\\j\\newFolder" "-P" "-vv"]
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "D:\\j\\NerdFonts"
2026/01/26 17:51:01 NOTICE: Config file "C:\\Users\\xxx\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "D:\\j\\NerdFonts" to be canonical "//?/D:/j/NerdFonts"
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "D:\\j\\newFolder"
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "D:\\j\\newFolder" to be canonical "//?/D:/j/newFolder"
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : Iosevka.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : JetBrainsMono.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : Meslo.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : Local file system at //?/D:/j/newFolder: Waiting for checks to finish
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : Local file system at //?/D:/j/newFolder: Waiting for transfers to finish
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip.61ed0831.partial: size = 13150405 OK
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip: md5 = 0cc2fb78336f38fc968e116c8d58d40c OK
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip.61ed0831.partial: renamed to: FiraMono.zip
2026/01/26 17:51:01 INFO : FiraMono.zip: Copied (new)
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip.544ee64e.partial: size = 27589199 OK
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip: md5 = c059f862712a7cef4a655786d613dc62 OK
2026/01/26 17:51:01 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip.544ee64e.partial: renamed to: FiraCode.zip
2026/01/26 17:51:01 INFO : FiraCode.zip: Copied (new)
Transferred: 104.153 MiB / 457.159 MiB, 23%, 0 B/s, ETA -
Checks: 0 / 0, -, Listed 5
Transferred: 1 / 5, 20%
Elapsed time: 0.0s
Transferring:
* FiraCode.zip:100% /26.311Mi, 0/s, -
* Iosevka.zip: 13% /187.934Mi, 0/s, -
* JetBrainsMono.zip: 23% /123.134Mi, 0/s, -
* Meslo.zip: 9% /107.239Mi, 0/s, -
Initially I will comment on your response and the I paste the new log you asked me for.
The log posted in my former post was everything that was displayed. As you can see some of the files are correctly copied and renamed, but others are left as .partial and not all the file is copied.
Fully random. Not only the files, but the size of the part copied. As I said it seems rclone is not finishing correctly or is killed by who?
I have done so, but in order to have everything successfully copied I have to run the command many many times. I guess this is not the expected behaviour of a program that should syncing
An know the new log
But first the status of the folder and the command run.
As you can see in this run one of the files is not correclty copied even it seems rclone succesfully finish.
Here the log:
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.72.1" starting with parameters ["C:\\Users\\jlanza\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WinGet\\Packages\\Rclone.Rclone_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\\rclone-v1.72.1-windows-amd64\\rclone.exe" "copy" "D:\\j\\NerdFonts" "D:\\j\\newFolder" "-P" "--log-level=DEBUG" "--log-file=d:\\j\\rclone_forum.log"]
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "D:\\j\\NerdFonts"
2026/01/27 08:55:21 NOTICE: Config file "C:\\Users\\jlanza\\AppData\\Roaming\\rclone\\rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "D:\\j\\NerdFonts" to be canonical "//?/D:/j/NerdFonts"
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "D:\\j\\newFolder"
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "D:\\j\\newFolder" to be canonical "//?/D:/j/newFolder"
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Iosevka.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : JetBrainsMono.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Meslo.zip: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Local file system at //?/D:/j/newFolder: Waiting for checks to finish
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Local file system at //?/D:/j/newFolder: Waiting for transfers to finish
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip.61ed0831.partial: size = 13150405 OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip: md5 = 0cc2fb78336f38fc968e116c8d58d40c OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraMono.zip.61ed0831.partial: renamed to: FiraMono.zip
2026/01/27 08:55:21 INFO : FiraMono.zip: Copied (new)
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip.544ee64e.partial: size = 27589199 OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip: md5 = c059f862712a7cef4a655786d613dc62 OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : FiraCode.zip.544ee64e.partial: renamed to: FiraCode.zip
2026/01/27 08:55:21 INFO : FiraCode.zip: Copied (new)
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Meslo.zip.b8d93c04.partial: size = 112448359 OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Meslo.zip: md5 = e7c6a487b2fbd6c82de4cd278f7361a1 OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : Meslo.zip.b8d93c04.partial: renamed to: Meslo.zip
2026/01/27 08:55:21 INFO : Meslo.zip: Copied (new)
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : JetBrainsMono.zip.0b6a2a88.partial: size = 129115244 OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : JetBrainsMono.zip: md5 = ff321023e8e777d41fb7f39c9834d038 OK
2026/01/27 08:55:21 DEBUG : JetBrainsMono.zip.0b6a2a88.partial: renamed to: JetBrainsMono.zip
2026/01/27 08:55:21 INFO : JetBrainsMono.zip: Copied (new)
As you can see the final progress report is not included and in this case one of the files (Iosevka.zip) is not copied.
I will continue testing on my spare time, but I don’t know what is happening. When testing rclone in a Linux based machine everything works as expected with a similar command line.
