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OpenDrive

Capability Support
rclone support tier Tier 1: Core
Checksums MD5
Modification times Kept, to 1 s
Case-insensitive names Yes
Duplicate names allowed No
Server-side copy Yes
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 No
Public links No

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.

OpenDrive allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

The MD5 hash algorithm is supported.

Character Value Replacement
NUL 0x00 ␀
/ 0x2F /
“ 0x22 "
* 0x2A *
: 0x3A :
< 0x3C <
> 0x3E >
? 0x3F ?
\ 0x5C \
| 0x7C |

File names can also not begin or end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the name:

Character Value Replacement
SP 0x20 ␠
HT 0x09 ␉
LF 0x0A ␊
VT 0x0B ␋
CR 0x0D ␍

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can’t be used in JSON strings.

The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.

Username.

Type: string · Required

Password.

NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

Type: string · Required

The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.

The encoding for the backend.

See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

Type: Encoding · Default: Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,LeftSpace,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot

Files will be uploaded in chunks this size.

Note that these chunks are buffered in memory so increasing them will increase memory use.

Type: SizeSuffix · Default: 10Mi

Files and folders will be uploaded with this access permission (default private)

Type: string · Default: private

Choices:

  • private: The file or folder access can be granted in a way that will allow select users to view, read or write what is absolutely essential for them.
  • public: The file or folder can be downloaded by anyone from a web browser. The link can be shared in any way,
  • hidden: The file or folder can be accessed has the same restrictions as Public if the user knows the URL of the file or folder link in order to access the contents

Description of the remote.

Type: string

Note that OpenDrive is case insensitive so you can’t have a file called “Hello.doc” and one called “hello.doc”.

There are quite a few characters that can’t be in OpenDrive file names. These can’t occur on Windows platforms, but on non-Windows platforms they are common. Rclone will map these names to and from an identical looking unicode equivalent. For example if a file has a ? in it will be mapped to ? instead.

rclone about is not supported by the OpenDrive backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about.