rclone not recognizing --gphotos-proxy flag

[arichman00]

I am trying to back up my google photos using a raspberry pi with a SSD attached. I downloaded and set up the latest Linux ARM64 release and then completed the ./gphotosdl -login process. I then run ./gphotosdl and get the following message.

./gphotosdl
2026/03/30 18:28:00 INFO Press CTRL-C (or kill) to quit

I assume I am supposed to leave that running so I open another terminal and run the rclone command, but get the following error. I have tried moving the flag around to immediately after copy too and it didn't help

rclone copy "GooglePhotos:media/bymonth" "/home/shares/passport/GooglePhotos" --gphotos-proxy "http://localhost:8282"
Error: unknown flag: --gphotos-proxy
Usage:
  rclone copy source:path dest:path [flags]

Flags:
      --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after copy
  -h, --help                    help for copy

Use "rclone [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Use "rclone help flags" for to see the global flags.
Use "rclone help backends" for a list of supported services.

2026/03/30 18:33:56 Fatal error: unknown flag: --gphotos-proxy

I ran rclone help flags and couldn't find any flag for --gphotos-proxy

[ncw]

I expect you are using an old version of rclone. Try the latest version.

Note that after the recent "security" changes by Google rclone can only download photos it uploaded which makes it a lot less useful for backups.

I recommend asking on post on the rclone forum if you need more help.