github.com/ncw/rclone@v1.48.1-0.20190724201158-a35aa1360e3e/docs/content/bugs.md (about) 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.