Re: how to tell what files changed?

[Erik Neumann]

Seems that many of the files I just transferred from Windows to Mac OS X came across with ***blank creation dates***. When rsync makes copies on the target, those copies get a creation date that is equal to the modification date.... therefore the two files are not the same (the creation date is blank on Mac OS X file, but is not blank in the target archive), and rsync has to check all these "blank creation date" files. It seems that unix doesn't have the concept of creation date for a file, perhaps this is part of the problem. So, how to solve this problem?  Is there a way to transfer files PC -> Mac that preserves creation date information?  Or is there a slick unix command that will set the creation date to be equal to the modified date for all files that have blank creation dates? BTW, here is the command I've been using:    sudo rsync -E -a -x -S --delete --exclude=Library/Caches  --stats ~ /Volumes/backup_40GB the -a option includes -t so that wasn't the problem. Thanks for any hints, --erikn On Apr 4, 2006, at 11:07 PM, John Van Essen wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Erik Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm new to using rsync, so far it is working well.   But I want to   know what files rsync decided to transfer.  Using the -v option lists   every sub-folder of my directory and lots of files. It sounds like you are not preserving the timestamps during the rsync. See the "copies every file" item in the FAQ:   http://rsync.samba.org/FAQ.html and see if that solves your problem.  You will need to do another "full" rsync to get the timestamps synced, but after that, your list of changed files should decrease dramatically.     John

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