From: Wayne Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 24/03/2005 7:24 AM
To: Toby Watson
Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Rsync, cygwin and seemingly random deleting of files problem
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:31:53PM +0000, Toby D. Watson
wrote:
> These files are not actually deleted as they
are then transferred back
> in the sync
process.
Do the names of these files differ in case, even after the
transfer?
Are there any weird characters in the
filenames that might be translated
by the underlying FS
behind rsync's back? For instance, if you have a
file named "foo." (with the trailing dot), that filename is treated
the
same as "foo" under MS Windows, and cygwin doesn't
do anything to try to
encode this filename in a special
way, so rsync thinks it has created
"foo.", but when the
transfer happens again, it will be told that "foo"
exists instead.
..wayne..
Dear Wayne,
Thanks for the reply; I am not quite
certain what you mean about the differing in case of file names. However, I
think you have put your finger on at least part of the problem. Two of the file
names have umlauts in them, and rsync is deleting and re-copying these files.
However, I noticed that when it copies them, the umlaut disappears, which
explains why it thinks they have been deleted I guess!
It is also deleting a file with an
apostrophe in, but presumably this will be the same problem as you
describe?
Is there any way that you know of working
around this issue?
Many thanks for your help,
Toby.
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