"Failed to create file system for "remote:": Didn't find section in config file"

[nfshr]

rclone was set up as advised in the docs via auto-config for google-drive (choice 9, "drive"). Set up went ok and token was received. Config was left at default when possible. Now i get the following err when trying to connect:

$ rclone ls remote:
2016/01/10 19:16:52 Failed to create file system for "remote:": Didn't find section in config file

Any Ideas why this happens? Couldn't find anything in the docs/Google.

OS: Arch; rclone: community/rclone 1.26-1

[klauspost]

Replace remote with the name you gave your drive.

Use rclone config to see the name of your remote.

[nfshr]

Oh, ok, thx! :)

[xinmeng1]

thx

[Aireezz]

I'm having this same issue yet I have specified it with the name I gave the drive.

Drive name = encrypted
Files located under

Main folder -Media
sub folders -
Tv
Movies
Music

i run this command "rclone mount encrytped:media /mnt/googledrive &"

I have also tried specifying a sub folder like this. "rclone mount encrytped:media/tv /mnt/googledrive &"

No luck, any thoughts?

[Flash619]

I have the exact same issue when using a crypt remote type. If I try secret:myfolder/ It get "didn't find section in config file".

EDIT

Nevermind, I had two words in the remote name switched around.

[razzmatazzrr]

What is this part in the rclone config about?

service_account_file> /home/foo/myJSONfile.json # This is where the JSON file goes!

Can I leave this blank? I've set a root_folder_id. All I want to do is copy and delete jpgs from a folder on my raspberry pi, however when I try run this...

rclone -v move /home/pi/timelapse remote:tent --delete-after --include *.jpg --include *.log

then it tells me, "Failed to create file system for "remote:tent": didn't find section in config file".

I'd love to know how to sync files to my google drive. Trying to make a timelapse. I don't want to run out of storage on my pi halfway through the timelapse.

[ncw]

What is this part in the rclone config about?

service_account_file> /home/foo/myJSONfile.json # This is where the JSON file goes!

Can I leave this blank?

Yes if you aren't using a service account file.

This question is probably better on the rclone forum if that isn't enough to get it going.

[henriquebs12]

Replace remote with the name you gave your drive.

Use rclone config to see the name of your remote.

Your simple comment probably saved thousand of users. Poor UX writing from the rclone documentation site. If it had some examples over there, it shouldn't happen. Sometimes devs think everbody think the same way they do. Thanks for the help.

[Inambe]

For me it was that I was running rclone ls google-drive and not rclone ls google-drive:/

[hugoxxd]

Yes,i have solved the same problem. The wiki documentation is very unclear

[ncw]

Always happy to take fixes to the docs if anyone would like to do them.

Note the docs are here - https://github.com/rclone/rclone/tree/master/docs/content and you can click the edit icon on the docs and submit a fix all from your browser :-)

[SephReed]

Derp. Dropbox: !== DropBox:

[shubinmir]

I faced with same problem with AWS.
And your tree of comments lets me to solve my issue.

command for example
rclone ls name-of-remote-connection:name-of-bucket/dir-name
or
rclone ls name-of-remote-connection:name-of-bucket/

name-of-remote-connection - this can be created with command below
rclone config

[Feriman22]

I had the same problem with MEGA. The problem was that I updated the rclone and the new version does not support MEGA Cloud.

The solution is to downgrade the existing version:

wget https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/download/v1.59.2/rclone-v1.59.2-linux-arm64.deb -P /tmp
sudo dpkg --install /tmp/rclone-v1.59.2-linux-arm64.deb
rm -f /tmp/rclone-v1.59.2-linux-arm64.deb

And stay on this version:
sudo apt-mark hold rclone

[sebastianaa92]

Replace remote with the name you gave your drive.

Use rclone config to see the name of your remote.

i'm stupid hahaha it was this simple... ty bro

[mirekphd]

I think this error is caused by using an undefined name "remote", so the simplest solution is not using it, like this:

rclone serve webdav "/tmp" 

(instead of the failing rclone serve webdav "remote:/tmp")