On Tuesday 21 March 2006 07:28, James Wilkinson wrote:
I should have thought --exclude .[a-z]* or --exclude .??* would have got
rid of most hidden files and directories. A quick check on my home
directory suggests both would do the job [1]
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll try it today.
I'd also suspect that for the test, you need to --exclude
~/Desktop :
things could get odd if you repeatedly try to syncronise all of your
home directory to somewhere underneath it.
Hope this helps,
James.
[1] Assuming that you haven't changed LANG or LC_COLLATE to C, in which
case .[a-z]* won't get .DCOP*.
For the test I will direct it to another folder that can be deleted once I'm
sure everything is as I wanted it.
I don't seem to have done too much damage with that first error. Perhaps it's
fortunate that I hadn't emptied Trash before I started, and I had done a lot
of culling. I always leave things in Trash for a day or two after an
exercise like that, in case I've made a mistake :-) Anyway, I was able to
interrupt while it was still copying Trash, which may have saved the day. As
it is, the only thing I've noticed is that I can't get back the default
Fedora Core wallpaper, which I like to keep on the server box. It makes a
clear visual differentiation between that and my own desktop box. It isn't
offered along with the other wallpapers, and I don't know its name, so it's
difficult to search. I tried a few guesses but without success.
Anne