[Ken Jacobs]

I have been using Psync for several months for nightly incremental backups and am very satisfied except for one problem. It can not delete directories in the backup volume. If I delete a directory and associated files in the source volume, it will remove the files in the backup, but generates an error concerning the directory not being empty. Any suggestions? I have e-mailed the author with no response. Either I am doing something wrong, or Psync has a fundamental flaw.

[Tomster]

What version of psync are you using? I recalled there was an upgrade sometime in April to 5.6

[Paul McCann]

I'm a psync user too, and know the symptoms that you're talking about. Every so often there's a directory that refuses to die. I think there are a couple of possible causes of this behaviour.

(1) a directory contains links to "deeper down" in the hierarchy. So the order of deletion of items must be implicated here (or at least the link-following behaviour).

(2) I added ".DS_Store" to the list of files to ignore. (You can do this within the "psync" file itself; it's a few screens down from the top.) This is fine except for targets that already existed on my image volume with .DS_Store files in place. Because I've instructed psync to ignore them it doesn't delete them from the target, and the directory is consequently non-empty and not deleted, even after deletion from the source volume.

They're the only two difficulties I've run into: apart from that it's been full speed ahead with psync.

Cheers,
Paul