I used rsync to repeat my total person folder from an older Macbook Air that’s failing onto a brand new Mac, utilizing Restoration Mode’s “Share Disk” characteristic. Now I am digging via the copy, transferring stuff into its appropriate location on the brand new machine, and I’ve found that my Footage listing has no recordsdata in it; ditto for the Films and Music directories. And, it did not copy the recordsdata in my ~/Screenshots folder, which is the place my Mac is configured to save lots of screenshots (this one is very shocking, as a result of it is a non-standard folder that I would not anticipate macOS to know or care about).
The Footage listing was created within the goal location, and all subdirectories have been created, however there are not any picture recordsdata wherever inside, and the 2 *.photoslibrary recordsdata it copied are zero bytes. In fact, I’ve about 14 GB of images in there. The story for Films, Music, and Screenshots is analogous.
Why did not rsync copy the recordsdata?
Each Macs are operating Sonoma. Each are my private units with no remote-management, and I am admin.
That is the complete command I ran, utilizing Terminal.app:
sudo rsync -avP /Volumes/Macintosh HD-1/Customers/Tom /Customers/Tom/Desktop/oldTOM
(I saved the complete output of the rsync course of as a textual content file, which is 423 MB.)
My outdated Mac is not experiencing drive failure: Disk Utility’s First Assist experiences no issues, and I’ve simply now used Finder on the brand new Mac to repeat all the photographs over, and I’ve verified it is all there. The identical goes for Films and Music and Screenshots.
The newer Mac has twice the storage capability of the outdated Mac and it is mainly empty (as a result of model new); rsync didn’t run out of area and abort.
So far as the rsync instrument itself:
% rsync --version
openrsync: protocol model 29
rsync model 2.6.9 suitable
The rationale I used rsync is that the outdated Mac hangs at login and won’t boot into Protected Mode, so I can not debug the login failure and I can not use Migration Assistant (which is what I would favor). I am getting ready to surrender on the outdated Mac, wipe it and ship it in so Apple can repair the congenital 12V rail drawback widespread to the M2 era.
This isn’t a data-loss query. I’ve glorious backups, and as I’ve mentioned, the recordsdata are nonetheless there and appear to be accessible. I simply need to perceive, as a tutorial query, why rsync dealt with these 4 folders in a non-standard approach.
