Before this change `rclone dedupe --dedupe-mode rename` probed the
backend for each candidate `name-N.ext` in turn and gave up when it
had tried 100 names for a given object. With daily runs against the
same duplicated filename this ceiling was eventually reached and
rclone logged "Could not find an available new name". Each probe was
also a backend lookup, so a run against 99 existing names took
minutes on Google Drive.
The rename now uses the listing dedupe has already made to skip names
known to be taken without asking the backend, and only confirms the
final candidate with NewObject (the listing may be incomplete because
of filters). The suffix counter is shared between the objects being
renamed so no name is checked twice. The safety limit is raised to
10000 which, thanks to the listing, no longer costs a lookup per name.
Nick Craig-Wood
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