I ran the original transfer with the -a flag. It doesn't fix the problem. 

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From: rsync [mailto:rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Korb
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 8:26 PM
To: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: rsync keeps writing files over

the T means that the timestamp is wrong and rsync is not fixing it because you 
don't have --times or --archive in your command line.

On 06/08/2016 08:17 PM, McDowell, Blake wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> Yes, both file systems are the same.
> 
> rsync -nri --modify-window=1 <src> <dest>
> 
> Gives me the following for most files >f..T.......
> 2015_167_1_1__Boy_What_A_Girl_R2/2015_167_1_1__Boy_What_A_Girl__UHD_DP
> X_R2/
> BWAG_R2_00138428.dpx
> Although a few have  >f..T......n
> 2015_167_1_1__Boy_What_A_Girl_R2/2015_167_1_1__Boy_What_A_Girl__UHD_DP
> X_R2/
> BWAG_R2_00135909.dpx
> 
> Strangely, no matter what HDD I¹m transferring from it is always the 
> same sequence of files that have the n - "A n means the create time 
> (newness) is different and is being updated to the sender's value 
> (requires --crtimes).
> (I¹m not quite sure I completely understand ‹-modify-window)
> 
> Here is a <dest> file example of timestamps as rsync interprets them:
> -rwxrwxrwx     24,839,552 2016/06/08 13:13:19 BWAG_R2_00086400.dpx
> 
> Here is a <src> file example of timestamps as rsync interprets them:
> -rwxrwxrwx     24,839,552 2016/05/27 13:43:32 BWAG_R2_00086400.dpx
> 
> 
> 
> So, yeah, that is the problem, apparently. The timestamps are 
> transferring.
> 
> But, for the files that have the ³n² the timestamps appear to be fine 
> and those ones don¹t continually transfer. A mystery to me as to why 
> the timestamps work on these particular files.
> 
> <src>
> -rwxrwxrwx     24,839,552 2016/05/27 14:00:57 BWAG_R2_00130798.dpx
> <dest>
> 
> 
> -rwxrwxrwx     24,839,552 2016/05/27 14:00:57 BWAG_R2_00130798.dpx
> 
> I¹m running version 3.1.2 protocol 31.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Blake
> 
> 
> On 6/2/16, 7:26 PM, "rsync on behalf of Steven Levine"
> <rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org on behalf of stev...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> In <d3762d63.17a7%mcdowe...@si.edu>, on 06/02/16
>>   at 10:42 PM, "McDowell, Blake" <mcdowe...@si.edu> said:
>>
>> Hi Blake,
>>
>>> The storage is just an regular HDD in a mac pro tower. I can t 
>>> imagine why it wouldn t handle timestamps. Also of note - this 
>>> problem doesn t exist for every file, just the vast majority. So, 
>>> that just makes it more confusing.
>>
>> Are the file systems the same on the source and the destination 
>> partitions?
>>
>> Check out
>>
>>  --modify-window
>>
>> in the help.  If the source and destination file systems have 
>> different timestamp precision, this is the usual solution.
>>
>> You can also try
>>
>>  rsync /path-to-foo
>>
>> where path-to-foo is a directory or file.  This will list the file 
>> timestamps as rsync interprets them.
>>
>> BTW, what version of rsync are you running?  It might matter.
>>
>> Steven
>>
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