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"find" and "ls" disagree - why?
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Nov 6, 2003, 04:00 PM
 
I ran into a problem using rsyncX - it went into an apparently infinite loop, generating error messages saying that a certain file could not be found:

".../Drafts.mbox/Incoming_Mail: No such file or directory"

I listed the directory in Terminal using "ls -al", and sure enough there was no file named Incoming_Mail there. For some reason, I used find to look for files named Incoming_Mail:
find ~/-name 'Incoming_Mail' -print

To my surprise, find reported that the Drafts.mbox directory did contain a file by the name of Incoming_Mail!

How can this be? Presumably rsyncX is using find or something similar to look for files to be synced. What can I do about it so that rsyncX will work? Why rsyncX keeps reporting the same error over and over is another question.

     
   
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