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Manage iCloud Photos — Sync and Backup Files with RcloneView

· 4 min read
Robin
Developer Advocate

Connect your iCloud Photos library in RcloneView and back it up to another cloud without exporting albums by hand.

Apple's Photos ecosystem keeps years of images and videos locked inside iCloud, and getting a second copy elsewhere usually means exporting albums one at a time through the Photos app. RcloneView connects to iCloud Photos as its own dedicated remote — a separate package from iCloud Drive — so you can browse the library directly and copy it to Google Drive, Amazon S3, or a local backup drive without the manual export step. Connect S3, Azure File Storage, or Backblaze B2 with full read/write on the FREE license, so the destination side of a photo backup costs nothing extra to set up.

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Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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RcloneView on Elementary OS — Cloud Storage Sync and Backup

· 4 min read
Alex
Principal Engineer

Run RcloneView on Elementary OS to browse, sync, mount, and back up 90+ cloud providers from a native GUI that fits the Pantheon desktop.

Elementary OS is built on Ubuntu LTS but ships its own Pantheon desktop, and users who picked it for a clean, macOS-like workflow often want their cloud storage tools to match that same polish instead of falling back to a bare terminal. RcloneView installs as a native .deb package on Elementary OS and provides a full file-manager-style interface for every remote rclone supports, from Google Drive to Amazon S3 to SFTP servers. Unlike mount-only tools, RcloneView also syncs and compares folders — on the FREE license — so mounting a drive and running a scheduled backup both come from the same app.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Cloud Storage for Public Libraries — Digitize and Share Collections with RcloneView

· 3 min read
Morgan
Staff Engineer

Digitized archives, patron files, and multi-branch records all need somewhere reliable to live — and a way to move between branches without a dedicated IT team.

A public library system digitizing decades of local newspapers and historical photographs generates terabytes of scanned TIFF and PDF files that need to reach a permanent cloud archive without overwhelming a branch's local storage. Add multi-branch operations sharing catalogs, programming materials, and administrative records, and library IT staff — often a single part-time administrator — need a tool that handles transfers and backups without requiring scripting expertise. RcloneView gives library systems a point-and-click way to move, sync, and archive files across branches and cloud providers.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Fix Synology NAS Detection and Connection Errors — Reliable Backups with RcloneView

· 3 min read
Casey
Product Manager

When RcloneView won't find your Synology on the local network, the fix is usually a setting, not a broken NAS.

RcloneView can auto-detect a Synology NAS on your local network, but auto-detection depends on network visibility, not just on the NAS being powered on. A photography studio backing up 2TB of RAW files nightly can lose an entire backup window to a NAS that silently stops appearing in the explorer. This guide walks through the common causes of Synology detection and connection failures and how to resolve each one in RcloneView.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Cloud Storage for Surveying Firms — Manage Large Field Data Files with RcloneView

· 4 min read
Tayson
Senior Engineer

Point clouds, LiDAR scans, and GPS survey data pile up fast — RcloneView keeps field crews and the office working from the same synchronized dataset.

Land surveying, geospatial, and civil engineering firms generate some of the heaviest file loads in any industry: raw LiDAR scans, drone photogrammetry sets, and total-station point clouds that easily reach tens of gigabytes per job site. Field laptops fill up quickly, and getting that data safely into a central archive — without a slow, manual upload every evening — is a real operational bottleneck. RcloneView gives survey teams a single window to move that data between field storage, cloud archives, and the office, across whichever providers a firm already uses.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Fix Windows VC++ Redistributable Errors — Install RcloneView Successfully

· 4 min read
Kai
Junior Engineer

RcloneView installs but never opens on Windows? A missing Visual C++ runtime is almost always the cause — here's how to fix it in minutes.

Some Windows users run the RcloneView installer without errors, but the app never opens, closes immediately after the splash screen, or throws a generic "application failed to start" message. This is a classic symptom of a missing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, a system dependency RcloneView needs to run its native Windows components. The fix takes a few minutes and doesn't require reinstalling Windows or digging through the registry.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Cloud Storage for Drone Survey and Mapping Companies — Manage Large Datasets with RcloneView

· 4 min read
Jay
Tech Writer

Raw flight captures, processed orthomosaics, and point clouds pile up fast — RcloneView keeps them organized across every cloud your team relies on.

A single drone survey flight can produce tens of thousands of raw images, and processed outputs like orthomosaics and LiDAR point clouds routinely reach tens of gigabytes per site. Survey and mapping companies typically split this data across a fast local drive for active processing, cloud storage for client delivery, and a cheaper archive tier for completed projects — which means files need to move between locations constantly. RcloneView manages that movement from one interface instead of juggling separate upload tools per provider.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Fix PikPak Sync Errors — Resolve Connection Issues with RcloneView

· 3 min read
Steve
Senior Engineer

Stalled transfers and failed PikPak jobs usually trace back to a handful of fixable causes — here's how to diagnose and resolve them in RcloneView.

PikPak sync jobs that fail midway, hang without progressing, or throw connection errors are frustrating when you're relying on scheduled backups. Most of these issues come down to token expiry, transfer concurrency set too aggressively, or filters silently excluding the files you expected to sync. RcloneView gives you the diagnostic tools — Job History, Dry Run, and the built-in terminal — to isolate the actual cause instead of guessing.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Manage Liara Object Storage — Sync and Backup Files with RcloneView

· 3 min read
Robin
Developer Advocate

Bring Liara buckets into the same explorer window as every other cloud you already manage.

Liara is an S3-compatible object storage service, and RcloneView connects to it the same way it connects to Amazon S3, Wasabi, or any other S3-protocol provider — through an Access Key, a Secret Key, and an endpoint. Once the remote is added, Liara buckets appear as a regular tab in the file explorer, ready to browse, transfer, and schedule alongside local disks and other cloud accounts.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
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Sync Koofr to Proton Drive — Cloud Backup with RcloneView

· 3 min read
Alex
Principal Engineer

Keep a standing backup of your Koofr files on Proton Drive without downloading anything to a local disk first.

Koofr is a European cloud storage service that can also aggregate other accounts, while Proton Drive adds end-to-end encrypted storage from the makers of Proton Mail. Some users want both — Koofr for its unified view, Proton Drive for its privacy guarantees — and RcloneView lets you connect them side by side and sync between them directly, cloud to cloud, without routing files through a local drive.

RcloneView app preview

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

  • One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
  • Schedulers & history for reliable automation
  • Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more
WindowsmacOSLinux
Get Started Free →

Free core features. Plus automations available.