nielash d541caa52b local: fix rmdir "Access is denied" on windows - fixes #8363
Before this change, Rmdir (and other commands that rely on Rmdir) would fail
with "Access is denied" on Windows, if the directory had
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY. This could happen if, for example, an empty folder had
a custom icon added via Windows Explorer's interface (Properties => Customize =>
Change Icon...).

However, Microsoft docs indicate that "This attribute is not honored on
directories."
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/file-attribute-constants#file_attribute_readonly
Accordingly, this created an odd situation where such directories were removable
(by their owner) via File Explorer and the rd command, but not via rclone.

An upstream issue has been open since 2018, but has not yet resulted in a fix.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26295

This change gets around the issue by doing os.Chmod on the dir and then retrying
os.Remove. If the dir is not empty, this will still fail with "The directory is
not empty."

A bisync user confirmed that it fixed their issue in
https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-leaving-empty-directories-on-unc-path-1-or-local-filesystem-path-2-on-directory-renames/52456/4?u=nielash

It is likely also a fix for #8019, although @ncw is correct that Purge would be
a more efficient solution in that particular scenario.
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Rclone

Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

Storage providers

  • 1Fichier 📄
  • Akamai Netstorage 📄
  • Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS) 📄
  • Amazon S3 📄
  • ArvanCloud Object Storage (AOS) 📄
  • Backblaze B2 📄
  • Box 📄
  • Ceph 📄
  • China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS) 📄
  • Cloudflare R2 📄
  • Citrix ShareFile 📄
  • DigitalOcean Spaces 📄
  • Digi Storage 📄
  • Dreamhost 📄
  • Dropbox 📄
  • Enterprise File Fabric 📄
  • Exaba 📄
  • Fastmail Files 📄
  • FileLu 📄
  • Files.com 📄
  • FlashBlade 📄
  • FTP 📄
  • GoFile 📄
  • Google Cloud Storage 📄
  • Google Drive 📄
  • Google Photos 📄
  • HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem) 📄
  • Hetzner Storage Box 📄
  • HiDrive 📄
  • HTTP 📄
  • Huawei Cloud Object Storage Service(OBS) 📄
  • iCloud Drive 📄
  • ImageKit 📄
  • Internet Archive 📄
  • Jottacloud 📄
  • IBM COS S3 📄
  • Intercolo Object Storage 📄
  • IONOS Cloud 📄
  • Koofr 📄
  • Leviia Object Storage 📄
  • Liara Object Storage 📄
  • Linkbox 📄
  • Linode Object Storage 📄
  • Magalu Object Storage 📄
  • Mail.ru Cloud 📄
  • Memset Memstore 📄
  • MEGA 📄
  • MEGA S4 Object Storage 📄
  • Memory 📄
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage 📄
  • Microsoft Azure Files Storage 📄
  • Microsoft OneDrive 📄
  • Minio 📄
  • Nextcloud 📄
  • Blomp Cloud Storage 📄
  • OpenDrive 📄
  • OpenStack Swift 📄
  • Oracle Cloud Storage 📄
  • Oracle Object Storage 📄
  • Outscale 📄
  • OVHcloud Object Storage (Swift) 📄
  • OVHcloud Object Storage (S3-compatible) 📄
  • ownCloud 📄
  • pCloud 📄
  • Petabox 📄
  • PikPak 📄
  • Pixeldrain 📄
  • premiumize.me 📄
  • put.io 📄
  • Proton Drive 📄
  • QingStor 📄
  • Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo) 📄
  • Quatrix 📄
  • Rackspace Cloud Files 📄
  • RackCorp Object Storage 📄
  • rsync.net 📄
  • Scaleway 📄
  • Seafile 📄
  • Seagate Lyve Cloud 📄
  • SeaweedFS 📄
  • Selectel Object Storage 📄
  • SFTP 📄
  • SMB / CIFS 📄
  • StackPath 📄
  • Storj 📄
  • SugarSync 📄
  • Synology C2 Object Storage 📄
  • Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS) 📄
  • Uloz.to 📄
  • Wasabi 📄
  • WebDAV 📄
  • Yandex Disk 📄
  • Zoho WorkDrive 📄
  • Zata.ai 📄
  • The local filesystem 📄

Please see the full list of all storage providers and their features

Virtual storage providers

These backends adapt or modify other storage providers

  • Alias: rename existing remotes 📄
  • Cache: cache remotes (DEPRECATED) 📄
  • Chunker: split large files 📄
  • Combine: combine multiple remotes into a directory tree 📄
  • Compress: compress files 📄
  • Crypt: encrypt files 📄
  • Hasher: hash files 📄
  • Union: join multiple remotes to work together 📄

Features

  • MD5/SHA-1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity
  • Timestamps preserved on files
  • Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis
  • Copy mode to just copy new/changed files
  • Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical
  • Bisync (two way) to keep two directories in sync bidirectionally
  • Check mode to check for file hash equality
  • Can sync to and from network, e.g. two different cloud accounts
  • Optional large file chunking (Chunker)
  • Optional transparent compression (Compress)
  • Optional encryption (Crypt)
  • Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount)
  • Multi-threaded downloads to local disk
  • Can serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDAV/FTP/SFTP/DLNA

Installation & documentation

Please see the rclone website for:

Downloads

License

This is free software under the terms of the MIT license (check the COPYING file included in this package).

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