rclone/docs/content/amazonclouddrive.md

---
title: "Amazon Cloud Drive"
description: "Rclone docs for Amazon Cloud Drive"
date: "2015-09-06"
---

<i class="fa fa-amazon"></i> Amazon Cloud Drive
-----------------------------------------

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, eg `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

The initial setup for Amazon cloud drive involves getting a token from
Amazon which you need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks
you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

     rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
What type of source is it?
Choose a number from below
 1) amazon cloud drive
 2) drive
 3) dropbox
 4) google cloud storage
 5) local
 6) s3
 7) swift
type> 1
Amazon Application Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id> 
Amazon Application Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret> 
Remote config
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
client_id = 
client_secret = 
token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"2015-09-06T16:07:39.658438471+01:00"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine with no Internet browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Amazon. This only runs from the moment it
opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification
code.  This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this it may require
you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this,

List directories in top level of your Amazon cloud drive

    rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your Amazon cloud drive

    rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an Amazon cloud drive directory called backup

    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

### Modified time and MD5SUMs ###

Amazon cloud drive doesn't allow modification times to be changed via
the API so these won't be accurate or used for syncing.

It does store MD5SUMs so for a more accurate sync, you can use the
`--checksum` flag.

### Deleting files ###

Any files you delete with rclone will end up in the trash.  Amazon
don't provide an API to permanently delete files, nor to empty the
trash, so you will have to do that with one of Amazon's apps or via
the Amazon cloud drive website.

### Specific options ###

Here are the command line options specific to this cloud storage
system.

#### --acd-templink-threshold=SIZE ####

Files this size or more will be downloaded via their `tempLink`. This
is to work around a problem with Amazon Cloud Drive which blocks
downloads of files bigger than about 10GB.  The default for this is
9GB which shouldn't need to be changed.

To download files above this threshold, rclone requests a `tempLink`
which downloads the file through a temporary URL directly from the
underlying S3 storage.

### Limitations ###

Note that Amazon cloud drive is case insensitive so you can't have a
file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

Amazon cloud drive has rate limiting so you may notice errors in the
sync (429 errors).  rclone will automatically retry the sync up to 3
times by default (see `--retries` flag) which should hopefully work
around this problem.

Amazon cloud drive has an internal limit of file sizes that can be
uploaded to the service. This limit is not officially published,
but all files larger than this will fail.

At the time of writing (Jan 2016) is in the area of 50GB per file.
This means that larger files are likely to fail.

Unfortunatly there is no way for rclone to see that this failure is 
because of file size, so it will retry the operation, as any other
failure. To avoid this problem, use `--max-size=50GB` option to limit
the maximum size of uploaded files.