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I hope that you sponsor the rclone project given that it’s the core of your business! I couldn’t find any indication online that you do give back to the project. I hope I’m wrong.
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I'm certainly planning on sponsoring the project as soon as possible, but so far I have zero paying customers, hopefully that will change soon
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first thing that popped into my mind is that your free plan is crazy generous. cut it out.
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first thing that popped into mine is $30/mo for running a vm with a command is something people will now just tell LLM to do
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that's just creepy and hella presumptuous
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Yeah I've seen this pop up in foss a lot lately and I don't like it.
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Gifts do not confer obligation. If you give me a screwdriver and I use it to run my electrical installation service business, I don’t owe you a payment.

This idea that one must “give back” after receiving a gift freely given is simply silly.

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Yes but thank-yous are always good. Making sure the project sticks around is just smart.
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If your neighbor kept baking and giving you cookies, to the point where you were wrapping and reselling them at the market, don't you think you should do something for them in return?
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Me too!
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How do you deal with how poorly rclone handles rate limits? It doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header and just adds an exponential back off that, in my migrations, has resulted in a pause of days.

I've adjusted threads and the various other controls rclone offers but I still feel like I'm not see it's true potential because the second it hits a rate limit I can all but guarantee that job will have to be restarted with new settings.

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> doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header

That hasn't been true for more than 8 years now.

Source: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/9abf9d38c0b80094302281...

And the PR adding it: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/2622

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I honestly haven't used it with Dropbox before, have you tried adjusting --tpslimit 12 --tpslimit-burst 0 flags? Are you creating a dedicated api key for the transfer? Rate limits may vary between Plus/Advanced forum.rclone.org is quite active you may want to post more details there.
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