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From: Warren Oates on 25 Jun 2010 07:48 In article <i00d00$2npi$1(a)adenine.netfront.net>, Calum <com.gmail(a)nospam.scottishwildcat> wrote: > -E, --extended-attributes > Apple specific option to copy extended attributes, resource > forks, and ACLs. Requires at least Mac OS X 10.4 or suitably > patched rsync. It's lying. You need a suitably patched 3.0.x -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Fred Moore on 25 Jun 2010 11:31 In article <i01843$7gk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > On 06-24-2010 09:08, Art Werschulz wrote: > > Does drag-n-drop also move dotfiles? > > You can't drag a file you can't see. > But if you drag a directory to another volume, > it's dot-files won't be omitted from the copying that follows. Except if you don't have sufficient permissions for the dot-files or other files within the selected folder. Then they will be left behind with no warning to you. Surprisingly there are a number of files within your home folder to which the user does not have full access/control. sudo rsync, with the appropriate arguments _will_ do the trick however. Disclaimer: I'm a UNIX kindergartener, so take my UNIX comments accordingly. However, I have struggled with this folder copying in the past, so I do have some experience with it.
From: Howard Brazee on 25 Jun 2010 12:47 On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:31:49 -0400, Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: >> You can't drag a file you can't see. >> But if you drag a directory to another volume, >> it's dot-files won't be omitted from the copying that follows. > >Except if you don't have sufficient permissions for the dot-files or >other files within the selected folder. Then they will be left behind >with no warning to you. Surprisingly there are a number of files within >your home folder to which the user does not have full access/control. Hmmm, that's scary. How do I know when/if this is a problem? My standard login does not have administrator rights. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Jolly Roger on 25 Jun 2010 15:12 In article <d9n9265enm22sjnj5brvfmm028ok14ol1p(a)4ax.com>, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:31:49 -0400, Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> > wrote: > > >> You can't drag a file you can't see. > >> But if you drag a directory to another volume, > >> it's dot-files won't be omitted from the copying that follows. > > > >Except if you don't have sufficient permissions for the dot-files or > >other files within the selected folder. Then they will be left behind > >with no warning to you. Surprisingly there are a number of files within > >your home folder to which the user does not have full access/control. > > Hmmm, that's scary. How do I know when/if this is a problem? My > standard login does not have administrator rights. If you use a command-line utility such as rsync to synchronize files, typically you can have it output a log of every file it touches (or doesn't touch). -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Warren Oates on 25 Jun 2010 16:05
In article <jollyroger-C02531.14124725062010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > If you use a command-line utility such as rsync to synchronize files, > typically you can have it output a log of every file it touches (or > doesn't touch). I use cron to run rsync, and cron will happily email me the verbose (as verbose as I ask for) output from rsync, saying what it's been up to. Umm, er, thanks, btw, I just checked, and there's some problem with one of the oul' Woman's volumes ... hmm, I think my wake-on-LAN script isn't waking up the volume in time. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer |