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Global Flags

Copy Flags

--checksum

https://rclone.org/docs/#c-checksum

  • By default rclone looks at the modification time and file size to determine two files are equal
  • When this is enabled, it checks the file hash and file size
  • Crypt remotes do not support it

--size-only

https://rclone.org/docs/#size-only

  • By default rclone looks at the modification time and file size to determine two files are equal
  • When this is enabled, it checks only the file size

--modify-window

https://rclone.org/docs/#modify-window-duration

  • This is the time difference tolerance between the two files to be considered the same
  • On MacOS this should be 1s

Sync Flags

--track-renames & --track-renames-strategy string

https://rclone.org/docs/#track-renames-strategy-string

  • Defines what criteria is used to track files that have been renamed

  • modtime: modification time

  • hash: hash of the file contents. Not supported on crypt remotes
  • leaf: the file name
  • size: the file size. This is always checked