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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
From: Howard Brazee on 25 Jun 2010 16:06 On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:12:47 -0500, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> 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). I was reading this to mean that there are times when I drag a folder, not everything gets dragged, and I wouldn't be warned of this failure. Is the solution to use a synchronization utility instead of the Mac finder interface all the time, and read the log each time? -- "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: Warren Oates on 25 Jun 2010 16:11 In article <gs2a261vcbjeik5thvqavtjp21slosmh23(a)4ax.com>, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: > Is the solution to use a synchronization utility instead of the Mac > finder interface all the time, and read the log each time? Yes, absolutely. Drag and drop hasn't been a useful backup "tool" since we moved to Unix. Now, there may in fact be some GUI backup utilities that _will_ move everything for you via drag and drop, but I haven't looked into that, and the Finder isn't one of them. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Howard Brazee on 25 Jun 2010 16:33
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:11:57 -0400, Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Is the solution to use a synchronization utility instead of the Mac >> finder interface all the time, and read the log each time? > >Yes, absolutely. > >Drag and drop hasn't been a useful backup "tool" since we moved to Unix. > >Now, there may in fact be some GUI backup utilities that _will_ move >everything for you via drag and drop, but I haven't looked into that, >and the Finder isn't one of them. Hmmm, don't tell all of those people who are considering moving to a Mac because of its easy to use interface, and "it just works". The image Apple seems to be putting out is that nobody needs to know command line tools - that the Unix underpinnings are only of interest to geeks. I use a GUI synchronization utility - Chrono Sync. But I bought it primarily to get copies of my wife's critical directories on my drive where it would get backed up. (It also synchronizes stuff from our Mobile Me account where I put stuff from work). -- "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 |