Filen
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| rclone support tier | Tier 1: Core |
| Checksums | BLAKE3 |
| Modification times | Kept, to 1 ms |
| Case-insensitive names | No |
| Duplicate names allowed | No |
| Server-side copy | No |
| Server-side move and rename | Yes |
| Folder move and rename | Yes, in one step |
| Free space reporting | Yes |
| Empty folders | Yes |
| Change notifications | No |
| Uploads of unknown size | Yes |
| Public links | No |
Setup notes
Section titled “Setup notes”In CloudMount you add this drive from the Add drive screen, and the wizard asks for the options listed under Options. The notes below come from rclone’s setup guide.
Modification times and hashes
Section titled “Modification times and hashes”Modification times are fully supported for files, for directories, only the creation time matters.
Filen supports Blake3 hashes.
Restricted filename characters
Section titled “Restricted filename characters”Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be replaced
API Key
Section titled “API Key”Options
Section titled “Options”Standard options
Section titled “Standard options”The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.
Email of your Filen account
Type: string · Required
password
Section titled “password”Password of your Filen account
NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.
Type: string · Required
api_key
Section titled “api_key”API Key for your Filen account
Get this using the Filen CLI export-api-key command You can download the Filen CLI from https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-cli
NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.
Type: string · Required
Advanced options
Section titled “Advanced options”The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.
upload_concurrency
Section titled “upload_concurrency”Concurrency for chunked uploads.
This is the upper limit for how many transfers for the same file are running concurrently. Setting this above to a value smaller than 1 will cause uploads to deadlock.
If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.
Type: int · Default: 16
encoding
Section titled “encoding”The encoding for the backend.
See the encoding section in the overview for more info.
Type: Encoding · Default: Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
master_keys
Section titled “master_keys”Master Keys (internal use only)
Type: string
private_key
Section titled “private_key”Private RSA Key (internal use only)
Type: string
public_key
Section titled “public_key”Public RSA Key (internal use only)
Type: string
auth_version
Section titled “auth_version”Authentication Version (internal use only)
Type: string
base_folder_uuid
Section titled “base_folder_uuid”UUID of Account Root Directory (internal use only)
Type: string
description
Section titled “description”Description of the remote.
Type: string