Support Permanent delete in OneDrive/Sharepoint

[jcastilloalonso]

The associated forum post URL from https://forum.rclone.org

https://forum.rclone.org/t/support-permanent-delete-in-onedrive-sharepoint/45944

What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)?

1.66

What problem are you are trying to solve?

OneDrive for Business does count deleted items vs the account quota. After migrating my offsite backup to OneDrive, I now have to manually login to the account and empty the recycle bin from time to time, as uploading a replacement new backup revision will result in the old file being moved to recycle bin as rclone will delete the file before uploading the new one. This behavior is consistent even when no_versions is set to true.

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

Adding a new flag similar to no_versions where we use this API instead of the regular delete item:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-permanentdelete?view=graph-rest-1.0

After this, we just need to update the documentation to recommend the flag if there's no need to send to recycle bin.

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[edc-w]

Hello, if you are in need of this feature being added on behalf of your business and are interested in supporting the project whilst doing so, please get in touch at sales@rclone.com.

[ncw]

I implemented --onedrive-hard-delete here (named for consistency with the other backends). You can set this in the config file with hard_delete = true.

Note that this only works with onedrive business / sharepoint and does not work with onedrive personal - it gives API not found if you try it there.

v1.67.0-beta.7957.2d125976e.fix-7812-onedrive-hard-delete on branch fix-7812-onedrive-hard-delete (uploaded in 15-30 mins)

Please give it a test - thank you.

[gomaaz]

Thx Nick,

I'll give it a try and let you know.

[gomaaz]

It seems to work!

After deleting a few big-sized folders,
rclone about: is showing no bytes in "trashed"

Also the sharepoint-Website doesn't show any files in the trash-can!

I'm happy with that :)

Good work, Nick!

[jcastilloalonso]

This is working great! Tested it with both delete and purge commands and both didn't land in recycle bin. Thanks a lot Nick!