<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" class="zmail_extra"><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" class="zmail_extra"><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:20:02 -0400 <b>Robin Lee Powell <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:robinleepowell@gmail.com">robinleepowell@gmail.com</a>></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div><div>> It would help if you gave us an example of what you'd *want* to have <br></div><div>> happen in different situations, but what about the -b option? This <br></div><div>> will do nothing with identical files but keep both versions of <br></div><div>> non-identical ones. <br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Sorry It seemed obvious to me. Myopia is a sometime hazard for me.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></div><div>I hoped by merging the slightly different directories that have grown up partially independent but largely the same.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to pick up what ever changes has occurred in the three different directories over time, into one directory that has everything.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I have actually done what I was proposing and in the end the size of the Merged Images directory has doubled.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My original scheme:<br></div><div>Seemed to work as expected between two Linux HOSTS: There was a size increase of about 2-300MB<br></div><div><br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" class="zmail_extra"><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div><div>But something screwy happens when rsyncing from windows to linux or unix. I doubled the size and I'm certain any actual changes would have been fairly small. However, I suppose if I had decided to move a major internal directory inside Images or rename one or something... that might cause a serious problem for rsync to surmount.<br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" class="zmail_extra"><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div><br></div><div><div>On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:24:16AM +0000, hput via rsync wrote: <br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div>[...]<br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" class="zmail_extra"><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" class="zmail_extra"><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div><div>> How can I make rsync do the work for me? So I don't end up loosing files. <br></div><div> > <br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Robin wrote<br></div><div> > but what about the -b option? This <br></div><div>> will do nothing with identical files but keep both versions of <br></div><div>> non-identical ones.<br></div><div><br></div><div>After pulling out the man pages and looking at that, It might be just the thing.<br></div><div>I still have all original unmolested directories so I can try that and see where it goes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But what about the thing with windows...causing a doubling of the size of Images?<br></div><div>It made me remember having rynced stuff from windows before, long ago, and seeing some kind of nasty behavior<br></div><div>I might have to hand merge that directory... and egad at 285G that sounds a bit daunting.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you Robin for your thoughtful and helpful reply<br></div><br></div><br></body></html>