Photographer’s Guide: Deliver Galleries to Any Client Cloud with RcloneView

Stage your finals once, then fan them out to whatever storage each client demands: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive/SharePoint, Box, or S3/Wasabi/R2. RcloneView gives you a two-pane GUI over rclone with Compare, Jobs, and cloud-to-cloud speed so you stop re-uploading the same gallery all night.

Why photographers need this

• Clients often require uploads into their own storage (policy, retention) instead of a public link.
• Different destinations per job: agency wants Drive, brand wants Dropbox file request, retoucher sits on OneDrive, archive is Wasabi/S3.
• Re-uploading 8-12 GB per client crushes home upstream; vendor apps give opaque errors.
• Need partial updates: send only changed selects without re-exporting or re-uploading everything.
• Sometimes you stage on a cloud VM for speed; browser logins there are awkward.

RcloneView covers 100+ providers in one UI and can shift heavy transfers to a cloud-hosted rclone when your uplink is the bottleneck.

Manage & Sync All Clouds in One Place

RcloneView is a cross-platform GUI for rclone. Compare folders, transfer or sync files, and automate multi-cloud workflows with a clean, visual interface.

• One-click jobs: Copy · Sync · Compare
• Schedulers & history for reliable automation
• Works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and more

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Quick setup (10 minutes)

1. Install RcloneView (Win/macOS/Linux): https://rcloneview.com/src/download.html
2. Add the remotes your clients use via Remote -> + New Remote:
   • Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive/SharePoint, Box (OAuth).
   • S3/Wasabi/R2/B2 (S3-compatible: endpoint + keys).
   • WebDAV/SFTP for custom endpoints.
3. Optional: run external rclone on a cloud VM for cloud-to-cloud speed. Guide: https://rcloneview.com/support/tutorials/new-window-with-external-rclone (pattern works for any pair).

👉 Remote setup refs:

• Add Google Drive: step-by-step guide
• Add S3/Wasabi: S3-compatible setup

Delivery flow: stage once, deliver everywhere

1. Stage finals in Projects/Client/Finals (local SSD or NAS).
2. Open two panes: left = Finals, right = target cloud.
3. Click Compare to see what is missing; then Copy -> to send only new/changed files.
4. Switch the right tab to the next client cloud; reuse the same source-no second local upload.
5. Save each flow as a Job for repeat clients; run or schedule.

👉 Feature docs:

• Compare: how it works
• Create Jobs: job creation
• Execute & manage jobs: job execution
• Scheduling: scheduling guide

Handling common photographer asks

• Agency wants Drive + Wasabi: Copy to Drive, flip the tab to Wasabi, Copy again-no second local upload.
• Brand sends a Dropbox request link and the retoucher uses Box: keep both remotes open, drag to each without re-exporting or re-uploading.
• Client swaps 10 selects after sign-off: run Compare or Sync with Dry Run; only changed files move.
• Client forbids public links: deliver inside their tenant (Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox/Wasabi) without generating external shares.
• Shared workstation: enable app lock (tutorials/enable-app-lock.md) so stored credentials are protected.

Cloud-to-cloud when your uplink is weak

• Start rclone rcd on a cloud VM (EC2/GCE), open a New Window in RcloneView, connect to that daemon, add remotes there, and run Compare/Copy.
• External rclone pattern (OneDrive -> Wasabi example): cloud-to-cloud example
• Headless auth guides: OneDrive headless and Google Drive headless

Mini playbook (busy week)

1. Remotes: Drive (agency), Dropbox (brand), OneDrive (retoucher), Wasabi (archive).
2. Tabs: Left = Finals; Right = one tab per remote.
3. Automate: Save each as a Job; schedule weekly refresh for ongoing campaigns.
4. Verify: Check Job History/logs; send links with confidence.

Why not just send a public link?

• If the client only wants a public link, you are done.
• Use RcloneView when clients need assets inside their own storage (policy/retention), or when you must deliver to multiple destinations without re-uploading, with partial updates, logging, and cloud-to-cloud speed.

Summary

Photographers do not need three vendor apps to satisfy three clouds. With RcloneView you stage once, Compare, Copy, and schedule Jobs across Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive/SharePoint, Box, and S3/Wasabi. Clear logs, retries, and optional cloud-to-cloud offload mean fewer late nights and faster handoffs.

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