Setting up a Mount to the pCloud root folder

Suspected Bug
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Hello all. Working through my growing pains…

I have set up a pCloud, OneDrive, and Google Drive remotes. I then set up Cache virtual remotes to each of these, then I set up Crypt remotes to a “vault” on each of these.

My plan is to set up a mount to the root of each of these network drives, a “share” mount to a /share/ folder on each of these, and a “vault” remote to a /share/vault folder on each of these.

For OneDrive and Google everything worked out great. The problem is that pCloud kept faulting out when setting up the root mount.

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Bug Alert

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It looks like you cannot set up a mount to the root folder of a pCloud drive. Since you can do so to other services, I would consider this a bug.

Thank you.

Jeff Y.

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Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the detailed description of your setup. Since RcloneView is a GUI frontend that relies on rclone for the actual mount/remote operations, it would be helpful to first verify whether this is an rclone issue or something specific to RcloneView.

Could you try mounting the pCloud root directly from the command line? For example:

rclone mount pcloud: /path/to/mountpoint --vfs-cache-mode full

If the mount fails with the CLI as well, then this is indeed an rclone backend issue and not something RcloneView can address. In that case, I’d recommend posting a bug report on the official rclone forum at forum.rclone.org. The rclone developers and community there would be best positioned to investigate the pCloud root mount issue.

When you post there, including the following would help them diagnose it faster:

  • Your rclone version (rclone version)
  • The exact error message or log output
  • Your rclone config for the pCloud remote (with sensitive info redacted)
  • OS and platform details

On the other hand, if the CLI mount works fine, please let us know and we can look into what might be going wrong on the RcloneView side.

Best,
The RcloneView Team

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Team,

The following command failed to mounted the drive:
rclone mount pCloud: /home/jy549883/shared/pCloud.Drive --vfs-cache-mode full &

The following command successfully mounted the drive:
rclone mount pCloud:/ /home/jy549883/shared/pCloud.Drive --vfs-cache-mode full &

The difference between the two is the / after the remote name. I tested with Microsoft and Google without the / and they mounted just fine. This means that PcloneView needs to send the / for root for maximum compatibility.

The below is my configuration for the same thing in PcloneView, and it does not work. Note that I have another mount that I added a path and it works just fine.

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Looks like a bug in the implementation in rclone not matching their documentation (or possibly in pCloud API), but easily compensated for in RcloneView by adding a default / for root access.

Thank you.
Jeff Y.

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Team,

I just found a workaround. I just added a second / in the path. RcloneView must ignore the first slash when generating the remote path. By adding a second I worked around the issue.

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Hope this helps someone else out there.

Thank you.

Jeff Y.

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