Rsync from smartfolder to external HD

[ShahaRaz]

Hey, I’m trying to use rsync to create one folder with all my music collection in it.
i currently have the music spread on my Mac & on my backup hard drive.

I want to create a folder with all my music in it inside a new hard drive.

I used a smart-folder to locate all the music from my Mac&backup drive and it found it successfully from my Mac & my backup drive too.

Now I want to copy the files (newest versions of each file) to the external hard drive.
I used this command in the terminal:

rsync -avu /Users/ShahaRz 1/Library/Saved Searches/all music search.savedSearch/ /Rz4TBmyPass/All music/

[Rz4TBmyPass] is the hard drive name.


I don’t know what exactly went wrong, but the only thing it does is creating another music folder inside the music directory. [ at Macintosh HD>users>ShahaRz1>Music ]

The folder inside my Rz4TBmyPass isn’t changing at all, nor the space on this disc.

what can I do to make it work?

thanks for the help!

 

[chown33]

This can't be made to work with 'rsync'.

A "Smart Folder" isn't a real folder or directory. Instead, it's the results of a search. The Finder just shows it as a folder.

Since it's not a real folder or directory, 'rsync' can't copy it.


Also, you didn't quote the pathname strings in the command-line you gave. The command thus contains a different pathname every time you have a space, and 'rsync' interprets them as multiple items to be copied to a directory named "music/" in the current working directory. Since none of the items named actually exist, all 'rsync' can do is create the destination directory.