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     1  ---
     2  title: "Bugs"
     3  description: "Rclone Bugs and Limitations"
     4  date: "2014-06-16"
     5  ---
     6  
     7  Bugs and Limitations
     8  --------------------
     9  
    10  ### Empty directories are left behind / not created ##
    11  
    12  With remotes that have a concept of directory, eg Local and Drive,
    13  empty directories may be left behind, or not created when one was
    14  expected.
    15  
    16  This is because rclone doesn't have a concept of a directory - it only
    17  works on objects.  Most of the object storage systems can't actually
    18  store a directory so there is nowhere for rclone to store anything
    19  about directories.
    20  
    21  You can work round this to some extent with the`purge` command which
    22  will delete everything under the path, **inluding** empty directories.
    23  
    24  This may be fixed at some point in
    25  [Issue #100](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/100)
    26  
    27  ### Directory timestamps aren't preserved ##
    28  
    29  For the same reason as the above, rclone doesn't have a concept of a
    30  directory - it only works on objects, therefore it can't preserve the
    31  timestamps of directories.