allow rclone --copy-links switch

[katchy3132]

can you allow the --copy-linksswitch to pass through to rclone ?

[cjnaz]

See if the switch can be put in your config file for the remote. See https://rclone.org/docs/#config-file. If that doesn't work, I was thinking of adding an --rclone-switches switch which would take a quoted string of switches as pass then to the rclone copy/move/sync/delete commands.

[cjnaz]

See the --rclone-args switch added in rclonesync.py V2.6. You can try to pass in the --copy-links switch, but my testing was not encouraging. Please post/share your results. I'll leave this issue open for now.

• --rclone-args - Arbitrary rclone switches may be specified on the rclonesync.py command line by placing --rclone-args as the last argument in the rclonesync.py call, followed by one or more switches to be passed in the rclone calls. For example: ../rclonesync.py ./testdir/path1/ GDrive:testdir/path2/ --rclone-args --drive-skip-gdocs -v -v --timeout 0m10s. (rclonesync.py is coded to skip Google doc files without the example switch.) Note that the interaction of the various rclone switches with the rclonesync.py process flow has not be tested. The specified switches are passed on all rclone calls (lsl, copy, copyto, move, moveto, delete, sync, rmdirs), although some switches may not be appropriate for some rclone commands. Initial testing shows problems with the --copy-links and --links switches.

[katchy3132]

The switch is the best way to do it . Great. But it does seem have some problems as you said.

$ rclonesync.py Dropbox: /home/yo/Dropbox   --verbose --filters-file ~/.dropbox-rclone-filters --rclone-args --copy-links --first-sync
2019-04-11 16:10:20,592:  ***** BiDirectional Sync for Cloud Services using rclone *****
2019-04-11 16:10:20,624:  Synching Path1  <Dropbox:>  with Path2  </home/yo/Dropbox/>
2019-04-11 16:10:20,624:  Command line:  <Namespace(Path1='Dropbox:', Path2='/home/yo/Dropbox', check_access=False, check_filename='RCLONE_TEST', config=None, dry_run=False, filters_file='/home/yo/.dropbox-rclone-filters', first_sync=False, force=False, max_deletes=50, no_datetime_log=False, rc_verbose=None, rclone='rclone', rclone_args=['--copy-links', '--first-sync'], remove_empty_directories=False, verbose=True, workdir='/home/yo/.rclonesyncwd')>
2019-04-11 16:10:20,624:  Using filters-file  </home/yo/.dropbox-rclone-filters>
2019-04-11 16:10:20,625:  ***** Cannot find prior Path1 or Path2 lsl files.
2019-04-11 16:10:20,625:  ***** Critical Error Abort - Must run --first-sync to recover.  See README.md *****

[katchy3132]

Also, I wasn't able to do it in the rclone config.

https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/661

[cjnaz]

The --rclone-args --copy-links has to be last on the command line. Move the --first-sync before the --rclone-args.

[katchy3132]

Ah . That now seems to be working. I creating links on Linux and the file appeared as the full file on Windows. Deleted the file on Windows and the corresponding link was deleted.

Seems to be as expected.

[cjnaz]

I'll close this one. Pls open a new issue if anything come us.