Sync problem (Apparently due to special characters)

General
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Hi!

I’m using Rclone View to do a sync between my external hardrive with FileLu (a cloud storage provider).

So far it worked very well overall, so thank you very much for creating this software.

However, I have some issues when doing resyncs. After I sync my files, I do a sync again just to check if everything was uploaded correctly. In these subsequent syncs I notice that Rclone View tries to upload again files that are already uploaded.

Doing a small test, Rclone View works as expected. Basically it checks if the file is there and does not upload anything saying “no changes”.

However, when doing the sync with the main files Rclone View puts on the queue files that are already uploaded.

The only 2 clues I have are:

  • Special characters like these: áéíóú ñ ’
    • However this doesn’t seem to be an issue with small tests
  • Doing the sync between an external harddrive and FileLu
    • The small tests that worked were done directly from my internal SSD of my PC, but this shouldn’t be the cause

Below you will find attached some images

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“Compare” small test that shows the expected behavior

Characters encoding issue Rclone View 3
Characters encoding issue Rclone View 31318×792 31.5 KB

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B

“Compare” I do with the actual files showing that the special characters produce a mismatch between the files, and apparently causing Rclone View trying to upload files that are already there.

Characters encoding issue Rclone View 2
Characters encoding issue Rclone View 21322×795 74.8 KB

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Characters encoding issue Rclone View 1
Characters encoding issue Rclone View 11325×791 72.4 KB

Thanks for the help in advance you can give so I can finish this backup with peace of mind once and for all!

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Update

From the tests I’ve done:

  • Using special characters seems to be problematic
    • But this seems to happen only with large files (like 9GB)
      • I’ve got other two files with special characters with 4KB and 400MB, and both were uploaded correctly as shown in my first screenshot.
    • Multithread upload doesn’t seem to create the wrong name problem
      • Disabling it (putting it to 0) still makes the name of the big file be wrong.
      • However, when using multithread upload (that is default to 4) after it uploads the file, it leaves an empty series of nested folders. Seems that those folders are needed for the multi upload, but these folders remain empty after the upload is done, and they don’t get deleted neither.

I don’t know exactly if this is a problem from the FileLu app or the Rclone View app, but I’m leaving this info that may be useful.