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Mac OS X tool to sync / copy ONLY timestamp rather than data of a file? No file data transfer, only filesystem metadata gets synced
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This is my current situation (simplified, in fact of course many and large files): This has happened before: a b c were copied from Dir1 to Dir2. Within Dir2 the timestamps of a b c got modified accidentally. d got added to Dir2 intentionally. Now I want to do this: Sync Dir2 back to Dir1. (To whom…
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Dir1/ a b c Dir2/ a b c d
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Fix for: Mac OS X tool to sync / copy ONLY timestamp rather than data of a file? No file data transfer, only filesystem metadata gets synced
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The --size-only flag in rsync is neither CPU nor disk intensive compared to the standard rsync check, in fact it is faster because normally rsync will check both the file size AND the timestamp. You could use the touch command to explicitly match up…
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