1. Download and Install Rclone#
- Download the version of Rclone that corresponds to your needs from the official Rclone website.
Extract it to a location of your choice.
- Configure the environment variable for Rclone.
- Find the system information in your system settings.
- Open the environment variable settings.
- Find the "Path" field.
- Add the folder where you placed Rclone, for example
D:\rclone, to the "Path" field. - Open the terminal and check if the environment variable is working.
2. Download and Install WinFsp#
- WinFsp needs to be installed on Windows for Rclone to work properly.
Download WinFsp from the WinFsp website and follow the instructions to install it.
3. Configure Your Cloud Storage#
Next, you need to configure Rclone. Enter the following command in the terminal to start the configuration process:
rclone config
Enter n to create a new configuration.
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n
name> onedrive # Choose any name you like, remember to use it later
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
1 / 1Fichier
\ (fichier)
2 / Akamai NetStorage
\ (netstorage)
3 / Alias for an existing remote
\ (alias)
4 / Amazon Drive
\ (amazon cloud drive)
5 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, China Mobile, Digital Ocean, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Lyve Cloud, Minio, Netease, RackCorp, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, StackPath, Storj, Tencent COS and Wasabi
\ (s3)
6 / Backblaze B2
\ (b2)
7 / Better checksums for other remotes
\ (hasher)
8 / Box
\ (box)
9 / Cache a remote
\ (cache)
10 / Citrix Sharefile
\ (sharefile)
11 / Compress a remote
\ (compress)
12 / Dropbox
\ (dropbox)
13 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
\ (crypt)
14 / Enterprise File Fabric
\ (filefabric)
15 / FTP Connection
\ (ftp)
16 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
\ (google cloud storage)
17 / Google Drive
\ (drive)
18 / Google Photos
\ (google photos)
19 / Hadoop distributed file system
\ (hdfs)
20 / Hubic
\ (hubic)
21 / In memory object storage system.
\ (memory)
22 / Jottacloud
\ (jottacloud)
23 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
\ (koofr)
24 / Local Disk
\ (local)
25 / Mail.ru Cloud
\ (mailru)
26 / Mega
\ (mega)
27 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
\ (azureblob)
28 / Microsoft OneDrive
\ (onedrive)
29 / OpenDrive
\ (opendrive)
30 / OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
\ (swift)
31 / Pcloud
\ (pcloud)
32 / Put.io
\ (putio)
33 / QingCloud Object Storage
\ (qingstor)
34 / SSH/SFTP Connection
\ (sftp)
35 / Sia Decentralized Cloud
\ (sia)
36 / Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
\ (storj)
37 / Sugarsync
\ (sugarsync)
38 / Transparently chunk/split large files
\ (chunker)
39 / Union merges the contents of several upstream fs
\ (union)
40 / Uptobox
\ (uptobox)
41 / Webdav
\ (webdav)
42 / Yandex Disk
\ (yandex)
43 / Zoho
\ (zoho)
44 / http Connection
\ (http)
45 / premiumize.me
\ (premiumizeme)
46 / seafile
\ (seafile)
Storage> 28 # Choose the number according to the cloud storage you want to mount
Option client_id.
OAuth Client Id.
Leave blank normally.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
client_id># Leave it blank
Option client_secret.
OAuth Client Secret.
Leave blank normally.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
client_secret># Leave it blank
Option region.
Choose national cloud region for OneDrive.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value.
Press Enter for the default (global).
1 / Microsoft Cloud Global
\ (global)
2 / Microsoft Cloud for US Government
\ (us)
3 / Microsoft Cloud Germany
\ (de)
4 / Azure and Office 365 operated by 21Vianet in China
\ (cn)
region> 1 # Choose according to your situation, select 1 if unsure
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n>
Then it will redirect to your browser for authorization. Log in to your cloud storage account.
Continue scrolling down.
Press Enter for the default (onedrive).
1 / OneDrive Personal or Business
\ (onedrive)
2 / Root Sharepoint site
\ (sharepoint)
/ Sharepoint site name or URL
3 | E.g. mysite or https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite
\ (url)
4 / Search for a Sharepoint site
\ (search)
5 / Type in driveID (advanced)
\ (driveid)
6 / Type in SiteID (advanced)
\ (siteid)
/ Sharepoint server-relative path (advanced)
7 | E.g. /teams/hr
\ (path)
config_type> 1
Drive OK?
Found drive "root" of type "business"
URL: https://iginsing-my.sharepoint.com/personal/xxxxxxxx/Documents
y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n># Press Enter
--------------------
[onedrive]
type = onedrive
token = {"access_token":xxxxx}
drive_id = xxxxxxxxxx
drive_type = business
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d># Press Enter
Current remotes:
Name Type
==== ====
onedrive onedrive
Enter q and press Enter to exit the configuration.
4. Mount Cloud Storage to Local Drive#
Enter the following command in the terminal:
rclone mount onedrive:/ X: --cache-dir F:\OneDrive --vfs-cache-mode writes &
In the command, the first parameter after mount is the name you entered earlier, / represents the root directory of the mounted cloud storage, you can change it as needed. The second parameter is the path where you want to mount it to your local drive. In this example, it is mounted to the X drive. --cache-dir specifies the cache directory. When you write files to the mounted cloud storage, it will first copy them to the cache directory before uploading them slowly. So make sure the cache directory has enough space. --vfs-cache-mode specifies the VFS cache mode. For more information, please refer to VFS File Caching. & runs the command in the background.
5. Create a Startup Script#
Copy the command used to mount the cloud storage to a blank text file and change the file extension to .bat.
rclone mount onedrive:/ X: --cache-dir F:\OneDrive --vfs-cache-mode writes &
Create another text file and enter the following command. Change the file extension to .vbs and place it in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. This script will be executed on startup, allowing you to automatically mount the cloud storage to the local X drive.
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run "cmd /c D:/rclone.bat",0
In the command, D:/rclone.bat is the path to the bat file you created earlier. Please change it according to your situation.