From b5002eb6a4a0a1059f9b881c297811ac8b2bbabf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:06:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] drive: document google docs sometimes fail to download --- docs/content/drive.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/drive.md b/docs/content/drive.md index ea3e60f1b..21f8aea3e 100644 --- a/docs/content/drive.md +++ b/docs/content/drive.md @@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ Google Docs exports which will cause rclone to re-download Google Docs for no apparent reason. `--ignore-size` is a not very satisfactory work-around for this if it is causing you a lot of problems. +### Google docs downloads sometimes fail with "Failed to copy: read X bytes expecting Y" ### + +This is the same problem as above. Google reports the google doc is +one size, but rclone downloads a different size. Work-around with the +`--ignore-size` flag or wait for rclone to retry the download which it +will. + ### Making your own client_id ### When you use rclone with Google drive in its default configuration you