onedrive: Option to automatically rename folders instead of throwing 'invalidRequest: Name is reserved for list forms folder' error about rclone

[ncw]

Heads up @rclone/support - the "Support Contract" label was applied to this issue.

[ncw]

This came up on the forum

A bit more research from a onedrive API bug report indicates you should be able to create folders called Forms just not in the root.

So creating a folder called Forms fails in the root

$ rclone -vv --retries 1 mkdir onedriveb:Forms
2024/06/14 11:27:01 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.67.0-DEV" starting with parameters ["rclone" "-vv" "--retries" "1" "mkdir" "onedriveb:Forms"]
2024/06/14 11:27:01 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "onedriveb:Forms"
2024/06/14 11:27:01 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/ncw/.rclone.conf"
2024/06/14 11:27:02 DEBUG : OneDrive root 'Forms': Making directory
2024/06/14 11:27:03 ERROR : Attempt 1/1 failed with 1 errors and: failed to make directory: invalidRequest: Name is reserved for list forms folder.
2024/06/14 11:27:03 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
2024/06/14 11:27:03 Failed to mkdir: failed to make directory: invalidRequest: Name is reserved for list forms folder.

But succeeds in a sub directory

$ rclone -vv --retries 1 mkdir onedriveb:subdir/Forms
2024/06/14 11:27:13 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.67.0-DEV" starting with parameters ["rclone" "-vv" "--retries" "1" "mkdir" "onedriveb:subdir/Forms"]
2024/06/14 11:27:13 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "onedriveb:subdir/Forms"
2024/06/14 11:27:13 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/ncw/.rclone.conf"
2024/06/14 11:27:14 DEBUG : OneDrive root 'subdir/Forms': Making directory
2024/06/14 11:27:15 DEBUG : 6 go routines active

Does that help? Is it possible to not put the Forms directory in the root?

It would be possible for rclone to map the Forms directory to (say) Forms_ in the root. This means it would appear as Forms but actually be stored as Forms_ on sharepoint. This is similar to the way the file encoding works

[chscott]

I don't think that will help in our use case. We don't know what we're going to find in the source ahead of time and would need to coordinate with end users to ask them if we can selectively target such folders and map them to a different location in the target, at which point we'd probably just ask them to rename the folder in the source to avoid the problem. The option to map Forms to Forms_ should work for our case.

[DipanshuHandoo]

Can this not be fixed permanently? It is not possible every time to do this mapping.