From 80391fbcd47924ede512bf6bc4f3835dadc153d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Guerrero Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 13:22:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dropbox: Add copyright detector info in limitations section in the docs Dropbox files protected by copyright can't be synced and results in an error. This issue reflects that in the Dropbox's limitations section to warn rclone users and give info about why this error occurs due that by default Dropbox API doesn't give enough info. Proposed by the original repo owner in this comment: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2301#issuecomment-388291079 Co-authored-by: Nick Craig-Wood --- docs/content/dropbox.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/dropbox.md b/docs/content/dropbox.md index de1413a12..ffb1f35d8 100644 --- a/docs/content/dropbox.md +++ b/docs/content/dropbox.md @@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ of this document](https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/145). Rclone will issue an error message `File name disallowed - not uploading` if it attempts to upload one of those file names, but the sync won't fail. +Some errors may occur if you try to sync copyright-protected files +because Dropbox has its own [copyright detector](https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/how-dropbox-knows-when-youre-sharing-copyrighted-stuff-without-actually-looking-at-your-stuff/) that +prevents this sort of file being downloaded. This will return the error `ERROR : +/path/to/your/file: Failed to copy: failed to open source object: +path/restricted_content/.` + 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