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title: "Bugs"
description: "Rclone Bugs and Limitations"
date: "2019-08-04"
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# Bugs and Limitations
## Limitations
### Directory timestamps aren't preserved
Rclone doesn't currently preserve the timestamps of directories. This
is because rclone only really considers objects when syncing.
### Rclone struggles with millions of files in a directory
Currently rclone loads each directory entirely into memory before
using it. Since each Rclone object takes 0.5k-1k of memory this can
take a very long time and use an extremely large amount of memory.
Millions of files in a directory tend caused by software writing cloud
storage (eg S3 buckets).
### Bucket based remotes and folders
Bucket based remotes (eg S3/GCS/Swift/B2) do not have a concept of
directories. Rclone therefore cannot create directories in them which
means that empty directories on a bucket based remote will tend to
disappear.
Some software creates empty keys ending in `/` as directory markers.
Rclone doesn't do this as it potentially creates more objects and
costs more. It may do in future (probably with a flag).
## Bugs
Bugs are stored in rclone's Github project:
* [Reported bugs](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug)
* [Known issues](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Known+Problem%22)