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Martin Hope
simone
Asked: 2022-03-03 00:38:06 +0800 CST
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Rather than navigate through the folder structure I'd find it easier to just use the drive URL that I could copy from - for example Firefoy. Like this:

rclone copy https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/some_id_from_gdrive .

Is it possible? or is it possible via some part of the URL?

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Martin Hope
Kong
Asked: 2021-08-13 02:22:07 +0800 CST
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I read from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/638885/onedrive-on-linux-without-root that I can install rclone without root by following https://rclone.org/install/#linux-installation-from-precompiled-binary

I ran the 1st 3 lines

curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
cd rclone-*-linux-amd64

but the rest still require sudo. How should I proceed?

Copy binary file

sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone

Install manpage

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1
sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
sudo mandb

Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs for more details.

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Martin Hope
Yevhenii Nadtochii
Asked: 2020-04-06 12:34:35 +0800 CST
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I wanted my cloud storage sync to be performed during system shutdown. For this purpose I use rclone with MEGA cloud storage. So, thanks for guide-writers I got the next:

run_on_shutdown.service:

[Unit]
Description=Syncing with MEGA cloud storage
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=shutdown.target halt.target
RequiresMountsFor=/home/yevhenii
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
User=yevhenii
ExecStart=/home/yevhenii/Projects/ubuntu-scripts/mega_sync_pc.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=halt.target shutdown.target

And simple script that it runs:

REBOOT=$( systemctl list-jobs | egrep -q 'reboot.target.*start' && echo "rebooting" || echo "not_rebooting" )

if [ $REBOOT = "not_rebooting" ]; then

    echo "Syncronizing Projects" >> /home/yevhenii/log.txt
    #rclone check /home/yevhenii/Projects mega:Projects >> /home/yevhenii/log.txt
    rclone sync /home/yevhenii/Projects mega:Projects >> /home/yevhenii/log.txt
    echo "" >> /home/yevhenii/log.txt

    REPORT=$(systemctl status run_on_shutdown)
    echo $REPORT >> /home/yevhenii/log.txt

fi

Result: it doesn't work. this script runs on shutdown, but i don't receive any messages from rclone. It only prints "Syncronizing Projects" in log file. Neither sync, not check - is working. What's wrong with this ? Executing 'rclone check' in command line results in very quick respond (1-2 sec), meanwhile shut downing stretched out up to 10 seconds or even more.

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Martin Hope
user824808
Asked: 2018-09-29 08:15:04 +0800 CST
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I have a script in a USER folder that works successfully when run manually. But I cannot get it to work when run via USER CRON (edited via crontab -e).

There are web posts elsewhere by others who have the same problem but I do not understand the discussions well enough to implement a solution.

I originally had RCLONE installed via SNAP on Bionic 18.04 but suspected that SNAP could be the problem. I have removed the SNAP version and reinstalled via SYNAPTIC.

My credentials for the remote on Microsoft ONEDRIVE are held in

/home/USER/.config/rclone/rclone.conf

I simplified my script into a test with a pipe to see output: >> test.log and my test log got created but was empty so I cannot see what is going on. My simplified test script is:

rclone move onedriveUSER:Pictures "/home/USER/Documents/PATH" >> test.log

I am not sure if the pipe is the right approach to debug. I'm new to this.

I'm using this script to move to my PC from the cloud pics of credit card receipts captured by my mobile using the Microsoft Office Lens app on Android. I'm really pleased with the process that allows me to throw away all my paper receipts each day.

But I want to automate the process on my Ubuntu desktop pc with CRON.

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Martin Hope
Mike
Asked: 2015-09-13 15:05:06 +0800 CST
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I use rclone with Ubuntu 12.04 to upload files from server to Google Drive. Everything works fine, but I can not figure out, with what command I can delete all files in directory. I have a remote called gdrive.

I tried using empty path:

root@machine:~$ rclone purge gdrive:
2015/09/13 00:54:02 Attempt 1/3 failed with 1 errors and: Can't purge root directory
2015/09/13 00:54:02 Attempt 2/3 failed with 1 errors and: Can't purge root directory
2015/09/13 00:54:02 Attempt 3/3 failed with 1 errors and: Can't purge root directory
2015/09/13 00:54:02 Failed to purge: Can't purge root directory

I tried using *:

root@machine:~$ rclone purge gdrive:*
2015/09/13 00:56:49 Attempt 1/3 failed with 1 errors and: Couldn't find directory: "*"
2015/09/13 00:56:49 Attempt 2/3 failed with 1 errors and: Couldn't find directory: "*"
2015/09/13 00:56:49 Attempt 3/3 failed with 1 errors and: Couldn't find directory: "*"
2015/09/13 00:56:49 Failed to purge: Couldn't find directory: "*"

Using purge to delete directories and files I know the name of works fine, but I can not guess how to delete all files in the root directory at once and the documentation on rclone's commands is poor.

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