Thursday, July 25, 2024

rclone and RCloneBrowser for uploading 30 GB files to Google Drive

As noted earlier, rclone is the preferred solution to transfer large files to and from Google Drive.

A point to note is that mounting and then copying seems to result in errors for Google Drive if transfer times are greater than an hour or two, so we should preferably use just rclone copy or copyto.

In the case of a Windows machine, here were my steps:

choco install rclone
rclone config

(to create the gdrive remote)
(choose everything as the defaults.)
rclone lsd gdrivemydrivename:
(to list directories)
rclone copy myfilename.mp4 gdrivemydrivename:mydirname --progress

Unfortunately, RCloneBrowser doesn't show bandwidth or time to completion with the latest rclone. So, the commandline, or browser UI might be better.

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