Re: [Pan-users] Problem with Pan and rsync

[Jim Henderson]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:29:44 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:

> Right now, I'm house sitting at Chaos Manor (Some of you might know what
> that is.) and using my laptop.  I have my own domain, and my desktop has
> an Internet-visible machine name with dynamic DNS.  Before using Pan
> here, I tried using rsync to get everything I needed over here with this
> command:
> 
> rsync -av address@hidden:~/.pan2 ~/.pan2
> 
> However, when I ran Pan, it showed every post since the last time I ran
> it, earlier this month, as unread and I had to mark them manually.  What
> did I do wrong?  (If it wasn't clear, this is on Linux.)

It's in your rsync command, probably - try:

rsync -av address@hidden:~/.pan2/ ~/.pan2

The trailing '/' on the source directory is important to rsync - you 
probably have a ~/.pan2/.pan2 on the target system.

Jim

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