Fix Embedded Rclone Crashes — Restart and Recover with RcloneView
When the footer shows "disconnected" instead of a version number, the embedded rclone engine has stopped responding — here's how to bring it back without losing your job history.
RcloneView ships with an embedded rclone binary that talks to the app over a local API address, http://127.0.0.1:5582 by default. Most of the time this connection is invisible — you never think about it because it just works. But if the embedded process gets killed by an OS resource limit, a conflicting local firewall rule, or a corrupted config lock, the footer's connection info stops reporting a version and every remote in your Explorer panels goes unresponsive at once. That's the signal you're dealing with an embedded rclone crash, not a single remote's authentication problem.

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