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Preserve icon with rsync

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Mar 15, 20262249 views
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Problem

I was under the impression from here among other research, that rsync was the command used to sync directories and any contents they have. I have tried the following commands: Neither of them preserve the icon, they both produce the same result: They both sync the files correctly but do not preserv…

Error Output

rsync -avzr ~/testing123 ~/Desktop/apartment
sudo rsync -avzr ~/testing123 ~/Desktop/apartment

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You need to specify the option to . Icons are stored in HFS+ resource forks.

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