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How to safely consolidate duplicate folders on Google Drive and then delete the emptied ones, syncing the kept ones?
I was reinstalling my system, and I carelessly copied folders to the folder I use for Google Drive and started syncing at the same time.
That resulted in my files being split between duplicate ...
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Inconsistent audio sync, capturing with V4L2 and PulseAudio
Not sure what's going on here but I can't seem to get consistent audio sync capturing from HDMI with ffmpeg. I can get consistent results from OBS no problem (video is always 100ms or thereabouts ...
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How to add a remote folder using command line in Resilio Sync?
I have a folder that's currently shared by another machine running Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync). How do I grant a new machine access to this share using the config file? I don't want to use ...
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check whether (recursive) directory copy is identical
I sometimes have to copy/sync large amounts of data in a directory structure from one computer to another. Typical programs I use for this purpose are rsync, syncthing, or seafile.
To not exclusively ...
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Can Unison be made to ignore bind mounts or hard links?
I'm looking for the best way to sync my home directory to and from a 120GB USB drive. The catch is that I use bind mounts (which I don't want to be followed) and hard links (which I do want to be ...
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Sync Dropbox to lowercase folder
I am in the process of lowercasing my linux system, but I found a hurdle: Dropbox partout does not want to reside in a lowercased folder.
Changing the folder via GUI, it always wants to go into a ...
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Sync move, copy and delete operations, not just files
I was wondering if there is any synchronization method which doesn't copy files if they already are in the destination folder.
Let me explain:
I took some pictures and put them in a folder on my ...
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dropbox showing "Downloading X files..." for ever
I have dropbox 52.4.58 installed on a Linux VM (Lubuntu 18.04 LTS). The dropbox instance can never finish syncing my folder and reach the Up to date status as a Windows version does on the same folder....
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ntp sync issue after setting time with date command
one of our servers had not accessed the time server for a long time. After access is turned on; my colleague has notice date is wrong and setting time with date command. After this I have restarted ...
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How can I sync files between cloned systems?
I'm teaching children programming with Scratch and we're giving each student a Raspberry Pi to use. I want to be able to give them extra files for lessons down the road (like new background or sprite ...
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Remote sync without rsync
My setup is as follows:
Two Linux machines running Debian 9
A "storage box" on the internet rented from a cloud hosting company. This box can only be accessed via the SFTP, Samba and WebDAV protocols ...
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How to back up efficiently (without copying files that have not been changed)?
I regularly do back ups of files on my laptop using an external hard-drive. I use a command line of a Linux system (Ubuntu). So far I have just copied everything to a directory and have removed the ...
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How do I ignore folders and its subdirectories in Unison sync
I use Unison to sync website projects across my machines, in one of my machines I would like to avoid sycning (both ways)some folders contained with in the folders I watch:
/vendor
/node_modules
/...
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Mirror 2 linux machines
I have a notebook with Fedora 25 and a online server with Fedora 25 too.
I want to mirror my notebook with my server in a such way that, if I connect direct on the server with NoMachine, it will be ...
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Syncing folders and files between a Windows and Linux system
I want to sync some folders between my Windows 7 and Ubuntu computers. However, I don't want to sync everything inside each of the folder. I want to be able to choose which subfolders and files inside ...
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