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Power users know that keyboard shortcuts can cut file management time in half. RcloneView's shortcut system gives you fast access to navigation, selection, transfers, and job management without reaching for the mouse.

RcloneView's two-pane explorer is designed for efficient file operations across cloud providers. While the GUI is fully navigable with mouse clicks, learning the keyboard shortcuts transforms your workflow — especially when managing thousands of files across multiple remotes. This guide covers the essential shortcuts and workflow tips that experienced RcloneView users rely on daily.

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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Sharing a cloud file usually means navigating to the provider's web interface, adjusting permissions, and copying a link. RcloneView's link feature generates shareable URLs directly from the file explorer — across any provider that supports it.

When you need to share a file stored in the cloud with someone who does not have access to your account, a public or pre-signed link is the standard solution. Google Drive creates shareable links, S3 generates pre-signed URLs, and Dropbox provides shared links — each through different interfaces with different workflows. RcloneView consolidates this into a single action: right-click a file, generate a link, and share it.

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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Not every sync job needs to transfer all files. RcloneView's time-based filters let you target only files modified within a specific window — sync today's changes, skip files older than 30 days, or back up only recent uploads.

Rclone's --min-age and --max-age flags are powerful tools for controlling which files participate in a sync, copy, or move operation based on their modification time. RcloneView exposes these options through its custom flags interface, enabling precise control over time-based file selection without touching the command line.

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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Accidentally overwriting or deleting files during a sync is every cloud user's nightmare. RcloneView makes versioned syncs effortless with built-in support for --backup-dir, ensuring you never lose a previous version again.

When you run a standard sync operation, files at the destination that differ from the source are overwritten, and files that no longer exist at the source are deleted. This is efficient, but it is also destructive. If a file was corrupted at the source, or if you accidentally deleted something you still needed, those changes propagate to the destination with no way back.

The --backup-dir flag solves this problem elegantly. Instead of permanently removing overwritten or deleted files, rclone moves them to a separate backup directory first. This gives you a complete safety net: every file that would have been lost is preserved in a location you control.

RcloneView lets you configure --backup-dir through its custom flags interface, so you get all the power of versioned syncs without memorizing command-line syntax. Combined with --suffix for date-stamped versions, you can build a lightweight file versioning system using nothing but your existing cloud storage.

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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Long cloud management sessions deserve a comfortable visual experience. RcloneView offers dark mode and theme customization so you can work for hours without straining your eyes.

Whether you are running overnight transfers, monitoring sync jobs, or browsing through thousands of files across multiple cloud accounts, the interface you stare at matters. A bright white screen at 2 AM is not just uncomfortable, it actively disrupts your focus and sleep patterns.

RcloneView includes built-in theme support that lets you switch between light and dark modes, or let the application follow your operating system's appearance setting automatically. These are not just cosmetic changes. The right theme reduces eye fatigue, improves readability in different lighting conditions, and makes the application feel native to your desktop environment.

This guide covers everything you need to know about RcloneView's theme system, from basic switching to accessibility considerations that make cloud file management more comfortable for everyone.

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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One misconfigured sync can delete thousands of files in seconds. RcloneView lets you preview every change with a dry run before a single byte is transferred, giving you complete confidence before committing to a sync.

The sync operation is one of the most powerful features in rclone. It makes the destination match the source, transferring new files, updating changed ones, and deleting files that no longer exist at the source. That last part, the deletion, is what makes sync both powerful and dangerous.

A dry run simulates the entire sync operation without actually moving, copying, or deleting anything. It shows you exactly what would happen: which files would be transferred, which would be deleted, and which would be skipped. You review the output, confirm it matches your expectations, and only then execute the real sync.

RcloneView integrates dry run directly into its sync workflow, making it easy to preview changes through the GUI before committing. Whether you are syncing two cloud remotes or backing up local files to the cloud, a dry run should be your first step every time.

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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Understanding what is stored across your cloud accounts is the first step to managing them effectively. RcloneView Explorer provides a visual file listing experience that replaces complex CLI commands with intuitive browsing, sorting, and analysis.

The rclone CLI offers powerful file listing commands like lsf and lsjson that output file details in various formats. These commands are useful for scripting, but they are not ideal for day-to-day file exploration. Reading through thousands of lines of terminal output to find a specific file or identify storage hogs is tedious and error-prone.

RcloneView's Explorer transforms this experience into something visual and interactive. You get the same underlying data, but presented in a familiar file manager interface with sorting, filtering, and multi-column views. You can see file sizes, modification dates, and types at a glance, and drill into directory structures with a single click.

For users who still need raw CLI output, RcloneView's built-in terminal puts rclone lsf and lsjson commands a keystroke away, giving you the best of both worlds in one application.

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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Large cloud transfers can run for hours, and you should not have to sit and watch them. RcloneView provides notification and alerting capabilities so you know immediately when a sync completes, fails, or needs your attention.

Cloud sync operations often involve gigabytes or even terabytes of data. A migration from Google Drive to S3 might take an entire afternoon. A nightly backup job runs while you sleep. A scheduled sync between two remotes fires while you are in a meeting. In all of these situations, you need a reliable way to know when the job finishes and whether it succeeded.

Manually checking transfer status is inefficient and error-prone. You might forget to check, or check too early and assume the job is still running when it actually failed an hour ago. Notifications solve this problem by pushing status updates to you, rather than requiring you to pull them.

RcloneView supports multiple notification channels, from desktop alerts for local monitoring to remote integrations with Slack and Discord for teams and mobile-friendly alerting. This guide walks through each option and helps you build a notification workflow that fits your needs.

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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Discover exactly where your cloud storage space is going with rclone's powerful NCDU tool, accessible directly through RcloneView's integrated terminal.

Cloud storage costs can creep up silently. A forgotten backup folder here, a batch of uncompressed video files there, and suddenly you are paying for terabytes of storage you did not realize you were using. Rclone includes a built-in NCDU (NCurses Disk Usage) tool that scans your remote storage and presents an interactive, navigable breakdown of directory sizes. Through RcloneView's integrated terminal and file explorer, you can run ncdu scans, identify space-consuming files and folders, and take immediate action to reclaim storage. This guide covers everything from basic scans to advanced analysis workflows across multiple cloud providers.

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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Unlock programmatic control over your cloud storage operations using rclone's built-in RC API, integrated seamlessly with RcloneView.

Rclone ships with a powerful REST API called the RC (Remote Control) interface. This API exposes nearly every rclone operation as an HTTP endpoint, allowing you to start transfers, monitor progress, manage mounts, and query statistics from any programming language or automation tool. RcloneView leverages this same RC API under the hood for its GUI operations, which means anything you can do in the interface can also be done programmatically. This guide covers the RC API from first principles through advanced automation, giving you the knowledge to build custom integrations, monitoring dashboards, and automated workflows around your cloud storage operations.

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.