Good morning,
unfortunately, rcclone doesn’t create offline files. I can only access my Google Drive when I’m connected online. Is this option not available? Best regards
Hi Ronald, and welcome to the community!
Short answer: no — RcloneView doesn’t keep offline files, and that’s by design rather than a setting you’ve missed.
When you mount Google Drive with RcloneView, the mount is a live view of the remote. Files are
streamed on demand, so nothing is permanently stored on your PC and the drive is unavailable once you go offline. There’s no “Always keep on this device” pinning like Google Drive for Desktop or OneDrive Files On-Demand.
One thing worth clarifying, since it’s easy to misread: the mount options do include a VFS cache
(Cache Mode: off / minimal / writes / full). That’s a performance cache, not offline storage — it
only holds files you’ve already opened, and entries are evicted based on Cache Max Age (default 1 hour) and Cache Max Size. Please don’t rely on it for offline access.
What to do instead — keep a real local copy with a job:
- Go to the job list and create a Copy or Sync job
- Source: your Google Drive remote (or just the folders you need) → Destination: a local folder
- Set a schedule (hourly, daily, …) so the local copy stays fresh
- Work in that local folder while offline; the next run reconciles it with Drive
If you need changes to flow both ways — edit locally while offline, then push those edits back to
Drive — use a Bi-sync job instead of Copy/Sync. One caveat: bisync is still flagged as beta in
rclone, so make a backup first and let it run the initial --resync when RcloneView prompts you.
Best,
RcloneView Team