rclone only works with sudo prefix...

[atanasj]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

When initially trying to run rclone config, I was not able to configure. I got the below error.

2018/03/05 20:46:06 Failed to create temp file for new config: open /Users/atanas/.config/rclone/rclone.conf865267437: permission denied

Following this, I ran sudo rclone config, but still no luck. I checked the config location "/Users/atanas/.config/rclone/" and there was norclone.conffile. So I created one, and tried the above steps again. No luck withrclone config, but worked withsudoprefix, and I was able to get the relevant tokens for theremote` connections.

However, when trying to run rclone sync I got an error (see below). However, sync worked when run with sudo prefix.

I'm trying to setup rclone for use with rcloneosx, so I really need to be able to run without the sudo prefix (and I'm assuming that this is how rclone would normally work).

What is your rclone version (eg output from rclone -V)

rclone v1.39
- os/arch: darwin/amd64
- go version: go1.9.2

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

macOS 10.13.3
64bit

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

box

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone sync "Users/atanas/Google Drive" onedrivePhD:gdrive --verbose

A log from the command with the -vv flag (eg output from rclone -vv copy /tmp remote:tmp)

Atanass-MacBook-Pro:~ atanas$ rclone -vv sync "/Users/atanas/Google Drive" onedrivePhD:gdrive
2018/03/05 20:43:57 DEBUG : Using config file from "/Users/atanas/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2018/03/05 20:43:57 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.39" starting with parameters ["rclone" "-vv" "sync" "/Users/atanas/Google Drive" "one
drivePhD:gdrive"]
2018/03/05 20:43:57 DEBUG : One drive root 'gdrive': Token expired but no uploads in progress - doing nothing
2018/03/05 20:43:59 Failed to create temp file for new config: open /Users/atanas/.config/rclone/rclone.conf586019659: permission denied

Thanks in advance---your help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Atanas.

[ncw]

What you need to do is change the ownership of your rclone config directory and all the files within... Something like

sudo chown -R atanas /Users/atanas/.config/rclone

should fix it.

This will have happened on a run of rclone with sudo I expect.

[atanasj]

That did the trick, thank you. As an aside, I just did a quick test of syncing the same folder to by onedrive and box accounts. Onedrive was significantly slower. Anyway, issues closed.