[spam]

I use unison to replicate a directory from the LAN at work to my TiBook's hard drive. Mostly it works extremely well, but I've had some problems configuring it.

Basically, I can't seem to figure out how to specify a root directory that contains spaces. I've tried various ways of quoting (single and double quotes, backslashes) to no avail. Can any one tell me how to set the root directory to "/this is the root/directory?"

For now, I'm working around the problem by using mount_smbfs to mount the share, and I have a symbolic link (with no spaces) to the directory I want to use as the root. This mainly works, but if I happen to "bump into" the symbolic link, by opening the directory that contains it in the Finder, for example, Mac OS X tries to mount the link. If the share isn't available, it hangs for a long time. Is there any way to prevent the hang?

[solaris]

Try:

/this\ is\ the\ root/directory

BTW I am not familiar with unison. is it a CLI programme?

[spam]

Originally posted by solaris:
Try:

/this\ is\ the\ root/directory

BTW I am not familiar with unison. is it a CLI programme?

As I mentioned, I've tried the standard Unix quoting methods, including backslashes.

Yes, Unison is a command-line file synchronization program. It's really a great program, except that I can't figure out this one little problem.

[utidjian]

Have you looked at rsync? I think there is a version that will handle the extra HFS+ forks also. (I wish those were gone already).