From 9f93da3299f66ce37857aa9ccd0956bd114be5d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morax <james20081204@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:24:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] operations: fall back when source ignores ranges

When a multi-thread source ignores ranged reads, abort the partial
destination and retry the copy as a single stream. Reset accounting
before the fallback so transfer progress remains accurate.
---
 backend/webdav/webdav_internal_test.go | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/operations/copy.go                  |  7 +++-
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/webdav/webdav_internal_test.go b/backend/webdav/webdav_internal_test.go
index dfdd38ef5..42ccbc6d2 100644
--- a/backend/webdav/webdav_internal_test.go
+++ b/backend/webdav/webdav_internal_test.go
@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ import (
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/rclone/rclone/backend/local"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/backend/webdav"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/config/configfile"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/config/configmap"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/config/obscure"
+	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/operations"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
@@ -240,3 +242,45 @@ func TestOpenRetriesMismatchedContentRange(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, "cde", string(contents))
 	assert.Equal(t, int32(2), getRequests.Load())
 }
+
+func TestCopyFallsBackWhenRangeIgnored(t *testing.T) {
+	var rangeRequests atomic.Int32
+	var fullRequests atomic.Int32
+	ctx, ci := fs.AddConfig(context.Background())
+	ci.LowLevelRetries = 2
+	ci.MultiThreadStreams = 2
+	ci.MultiThreadSet = true
+	ci.MultiThreadCutoff = 1
+	ci.MultiThreadChunkSize = 4
+
+	src, tidy := prepareFileObject(ctx, t, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if r.Header.Get("Range") == "" {
+			fullRequests.Add(1)
+		} else {
+			rangeRequests.Add(1)
+		}
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Length", "10")
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+		_, err := io.WriteString(w, "abcdefghij")
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	})
+	defer tidy()
+
+	dstFs, err := local.NewFs(ctx, "local", t.TempDir(), configmap.Simple{
+		"no_preallocate": "true",
+		"no_sparse":      "true",
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	dst, err := operations.Copy(ctx, dstFs, nil, "file.txt", src)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	in, err := dst.Open(ctx)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { require.NoError(t, in.Close()) }()
+	contents, err := io.ReadAll(in)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "abcdefghij", string(contents))
+	assert.Positive(t, rangeRequests.Load())
+	assert.LessOrEqual(t, rangeRequests.Load(), int32(3))
+	assert.Equal(t, int32(1), fullRequests.Load())
+}
diff --git a/fs/operations/copy.go b/fs/operations/copy.go
index 094aa288c..5e506adef 100644
--- a/fs/operations/copy.go
+++ b/fs/operations/copy.go
@@ -266,7 +266,12 @@ func (c *copy) manualCopy(ctx context.Context) (actionTaken string, newDst fs.Ob
 	}
 
 	if doMultiThreadCopy(ctx, c.f, c.src) {
-		return c.multiThreadCopy(ctx, uploadOptions)
+		actionTaken, newDst, err = c.multiThreadCopy(ctx, uploadOptions)
+		if !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrorRangeIgnored) {
+			return actionTaken, newDst, err
+		}
+		fs.Logf(c.src, "multi-thread copy: %v: downloading in a single stream", err)
+		c.tr.Reset(ctx)
 	}
 
 	var in io.ReadCloser