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---
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title: "Local Filesystem"
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description: "Rclone docs for the local filesystem"
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date: "2014-04-26"
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---
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<i class="fa fa-file"></i> Local Filesystem
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-------------------------------------------
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Local paths are specified as normal filesystem paths, eg `/path/to/wherever`, so
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rclone sync /home/source /tmp/destination
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Will sync `/home/source` to `/tmp/destination`
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These can be configured into the config file for consistencies sake,
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but it is probably easier not to.
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### Modified time ###
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Rclone reads and writes the modified time using an accuracy determined by
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the OS. Typically this is 1ns on Linux, 10 ns on Windows and 1 Second
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on OS X.
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### Filenames ###
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Filenames are expected to be encoded in UTF-8 on disk. This is the
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normal case for Windows and OS X.
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There is a bit more uncertainty in the Linux world, but new
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distributions will have UTF-8 encoded files names. If you are using an
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old Linux filesystem with non UTF-8 file names (eg latin1) then you
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can use the `convmv` tool to convert the filesystem to UTF-8. This
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tool is available in most distributions' package managers.
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If an invalid (non-UTF8) filename is read, the invalid caracters will
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be replaced with the unicode replacement character, '<27>'. `rclone`
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will emit a debug message in this case (use `-v` to see), eg
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```
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Local file system at .: Replacing invalid UTF-8 characters in "gro\xdf"
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```
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### Long paths on Windows ###
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Rclone handles long paths automatically, by converting all paths to long
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[UNC paths](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath)
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which allows paths up to 32,767 characters.
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This is why you will see that your paths, for instance `c:\files` is
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converted to the UNC path `\\?\c:\files` in the output,
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and `\\server\share` is converted to `\\?\UNC\server\share`.
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However, in rare cases this may cause problems with buggy file
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system drivers like [EncFS](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/261).
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To disable UNC conversion globally, add this to your `.rclone.conf` file:
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```
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[local]
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nounc = true
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```
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If you want to selectively disable UNC, you can add it to a separate entry like this:
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```
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[nounc]
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type = local
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nounc = true
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```
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And use rclone like this:
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`rclone copy c:\src nounc:z:\dst`
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This will use UNC paths on `c:\src` but not on `z:\dst`.
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Of course this will cause problems if the absolute path length of a
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file exceeds 258 characters on z, so only use this option if you have to.
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