On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Stephen Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now here's the problem. When I sync again later, rsync deletes all of the > files and folders that contained special characters in the filename and > re-downloads them. It's as though at some level, rsync doesn't see my local > filenames as matching the remote ones, even though it was rsync that created > the local filenames in the first place. http://www.samba.org/rsync/FAQ.html Basically, it sounds like you're using UTF-8, which uses multi-byte sequences for some characters. Unfortunately, there are different multi-byte sequences that can appear as the same character, so somewhere along the line the sequence in your filenames got changed. A byte-comparison shows them to be different even though they look the same. In this case, it looks like the solution is adding --iconv=UTF-8,UTF8-MAC to your rsync command. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
