From f469905d072d81cc199eebb01aca2f9efc567df4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:46:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] dropbox: Note 10,000 files limitation on purge - fixes #374 --- docs/content/dropbox.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/dropbox.md b/docs/content/dropbox.md index 7934fe048..92596b7ef 100644 --- a/docs/content/dropbox.md +++ b/docs/content/dropbox.md @@ -122,3 +122,8 @@ store. There is a full list of them in the ["Ignored Files" section of this document](https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/145). Rclone will issue an error message `File name disallowed - not uploading` if it attempt to upload one of those file names, but the sync won't fail. + +If you have more than 10,000 files in a directory then `rclone purge +dropbox:dir` will return the error `Failed to purge: There are too +many files involved in this operation`. As a work-around do an +`rclone delete dropbix:dir` followed by an `rclone rmdir dropbox:dir`.