Extended remote folder read time (probably due to rate limiting by dropbox)

[Blakestr]

Not sure what to do about this. Wouldn't be an issue if it was only a one time thing. Assuming every time this installer script is run as a new install it has to read the folders. A 100 gb dropbox with 51,633 Files, 16,844 Folders (minus whatever Rclone created) took approximately 1 hour.

[Jandalf81]

Might be related to rclone/rclone#1788

[Jandalf81]

Possible solution: change the way remote directories are checked

Now: get a list of all folders, check each entry in that list if it's the configured remote base dir
Better: Make it a direct check if the remote base dir exists (like if [ -d /path/to/dir ]; then...)

[Jandalf81]

Changed the way the script checks for the remote base directory with commit a8564b2. Now it tries to list the contents of remotebasedir which

• returns 0 if that directory exists
• returns 3 if that directory does not exist

That should be way faster as there's no listing of all directories in the DropBox account involved