Empty Folders Missing After Sync — How to Resolve with RcloneView
Placeholder folders and empty project directories often disappear after a cloud sync — here's the setting that brings them back.
A team migrates a folder structure to the cloud and notices that half the empty placeholder directories — the ones reserved for future files, client deliverables, or archive buckets — simply never show up on the destination. This is expected default behavior in rclone: sync operations only recreate directories that contain files. RcloneView exposes the setting needed to change that, and knowing where to find it saves a lot of confused rework.

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