diff --git a/docs/content/bugs.md b/docs/content/bugs.md index d576a711c..624f22618 100644 --- a/docs/content/bugs.md +++ b/docs/content/bugs.md @@ -1,13 +1,28 @@ --- title: "Bugs" -description: "Rclone Bugs" +description: "Rclone Bugs and Limitations" date: "2014-06-16" --- -Bugs ----- +Bugs and Limitations +-------------------- -Empty directories are left behind with Local and Drive +### Empty directories are left behind / not created ## -eg purging a local directory with subdirectories doesn't work +With remotes that have a concept of directory, eg Local and Drive, +empty directories may be left behind, or not created when one was +expected. +This is because rclone doesn't have a concept of a directory - it only +works on objects. Most of the object storage systems can't actually +store a directory so there is nowhere for rclone to store anything +about directories. + +You can work round this to some extent with the`purge` command which +will delete everything under the path, **inluding** empty directories. + +### Directory timestamps aren't preserved ## + +For the same reason as the above, rclone doesn't have a concept of a +directory - it only works on objects, therefore it can't preserve the +timestamps of directories.