rclone/docs/content/bugs.md

title	description	date
Bugs	Rclone Bugs and Limitations	2014-06-16

Bugs and Limitations

Empty directories are left behind / not created

With remotes that have a concept of directory, eg Local and Drive,
empty directories may be left behind, or not created when one was
expected.

This is because rclone doesn't have a concept of a directory - it only
works on objects. Most of the object storage systems can't actually
store a directory so there is nowhere for rclone to store anything
about directories.

You can work round this to some extent with thepurge command which
will delete everything under the path, inluding empty directories.

Directory timestamps aren't preserved

For the same reason as the above, rclone doesn't have a concept of a
directory - it only works on objects, therefore it can't preserve the
timestamps of directories.