srinivas1729
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Hello all
I've relatively new to the Mac world but have used Linux a lot. I recently bought an external USB HDD to backup data from my MacBook Pro. I use "rsync --archive --delete" to backup the contents of my home directory.
Recently I deleted some movies from my home directory (desktop specifically). I then ran rsync (via a shell script which always does --delete). rsync did remove the movies I had deleted from my backup drive; I was able to verify this by cd'ing to the desktop on my backup drive, on a terminal and see that the movies were no longer there. Later when I was browsing my backup HDD using Finder, I was puzzled because Finder still showed the movies as being present on the backup's desktop (??). I opened a terminal and cd'd back to my backup's desktop, but the movies weren't there. From Finder I can see the movies and even play them (???!!!!).
Any clues about how/why this discrepancy is occurring ??
srinivas
I've relatively new to the Mac world but have used Linux a lot. I recently bought an external USB HDD to backup data from my MacBook Pro. I use "rsync --archive --delete" to backup the contents of my home directory.
Recently I deleted some movies from my home directory (desktop specifically). I then ran rsync (via a shell script which always does --delete). rsync did remove the movies I had deleted from my backup drive; I was able to verify this by cd'ing to the desktop on my backup drive, on a terminal and see that the movies were no longer there. Later when I was browsing my backup HDD using Finder, I was puzzled because Finder still showed the movies as being present on the backup's desktop (??). I opened a terminal and cd'd back to my backup's desktop, but the movies weren't there. From Finder I can see the movies and even play them (???!!!!).
Any clues about how/why this discrepancy is occurring ??
srinivas