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Running as a service on a Windows server to mount an FTP site in the file system. Has been working without issue for a year until recently when an end user reported the mounted folder not accessible. Discovered the service stopped. Unable to restart. Updated rclone and winfsp. No change in behavior.
What is the problem you are having with rclone?
Service fails to start with error.
Error in Windows event viewer is: rclone: Cannot create WinFsp-FUSE file system: mount point in use.
Nothing changed with rclone or its conf file between the time it was working and stopped; it had been rock solid to that point. During troubleshooting the FTP host changed the account password. The new password was run through the obscure command and the output placed in the conf file.
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.73.3
- os/version: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard 21H2 21H2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.20348.4893 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.8
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: cmount
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)4
FTP
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
\\\"C:\Program Files\rClone\rclone.exe" mount EDI: E:\UserData\Restrict\InterlinkEDI --config "C:\Program Files\rClone\rclone.conf" --log-file "C:\Program Files\rClone\logs\mount.txt" --links\\\
Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.
\\\[EDI]
type = ftp
host = XXX
user = XXX
pass = XXX
description = InterlinkEDI
### Double check the config for sensitive info before posting publicly\\\
A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag
\\\2026/04/03 08:27:42 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.73.3" starting with parameters ["C:\\Program Files\\rClone\\rclone.exe" "mount" "EDI:" "E:\\UserData\\Restrict\\InterlinkEDI" "--config" "C:\\Program Files\\rClone\\rclone.conf" "--log-file" "C:\\Program Files\\rClone\\logs\\mount.txt" "--links" "-vv"]
2026/04/03 08:27:42 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "EDI:"
2026/04/03 08:27:42 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Program Files\\rClone\\rclone.conf"
2026/04/03 08:27:42 DEBUG : ftp://connect.interlinkedi.com:21: Connecting to FTP server
2026/04/03 08:27:42 DEBUG : ftp://connect.interlinkedi.com:21: dial("tcp","connect.interlinkedi.com:21")
2026/04/03 08:27:42 DEBUG : ftp://connect.interlinkedi.com:21: > dial: conn=10.78.1.248:61309->130.131.66.203:21, err=<nil>
2026/04/03 08:27:43 INFO : ftp://connect.interlinkedi.com:21: poll-interval is not supported by this remote
2026/04/03 08:27:43 NOTICE: ftp://connect.interlinkedi.com:21: Symlinks support enabled
2026/04/03 08:27:43 DEBUG : Network mode mounting is disabled
2026/04/03 08:27:43 DEBUG : Mounting on "E:\\UserData\\Restrict\\InterlinkEDI" ("EDI")
2026/04/03 08:27:43 DEBUG : ftp://connect.interlinkedi.com:21: Mounting with options: ["-o" "attr_timeout=1" "-o" "uid=-1" "-o" "gid=-1" "--FileSystemName=rclone" "-o" "volname=EDI"]
Cannot create WinFsp-FUSE file system: mount point in use.
2026/04/03 08:27:43 ERROR : ftp://connect.interlinkedi.com:21: Mount failed
2026/04/03 08:27:43 CRITICAL: Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: mount stopped before calling Init: mount failed\\\