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Using rsync to sync iTunes on two computers
Authored by: hypert on Oct 04, '04 11:57:21AM

Consider using <a href="http://www.van-rijn.org/unisonOSX/">Unison</a> to do true bi-directional syncing. It uses a cache to remember when a file was last modified. If it was modified on BOTH sides of the sync, it prompts the user which one to keep.

http://www.van-rijn.org/unisonOSX/



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Using rsync to sync iTunes on two computers
Authored by: rattler14 on Oct 04, '04 12:52:01PM

Thanks for the note. I tried install unison from the "stable" fink packages before, without luck because of an upgrade to the ocaml distribution which changed some of the commonly used global variables (or something to that effect). I was able (through the CVS) to get a copy of unison compiled, however, I'm going to wait till I can use the stable version from fink before I try it.

BTW, the link you sent basically says to just get the fink version.

I've read a lot of the unison documentation. It looks pretty sweet. Hopefully I'll be able to use that instead of rsync (which is awesome for archiving, but horrible for an iDisk substitute).



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Using rsync to sync iTunes on two computers
Authored by: bluehz on Oct 05, '04 12:23:40AM

I just built the latest Unison beta 2.10.2 from scratch with no problems.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/beta-test/unison-2.10.2/unison-2.10.2.osx-textui.gz

There are other version if you prefer.



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Using rsync to sync iTunes on two computers
Authored by: rattler14 on Oct 05, '04 03:27:31PM

thanks, downloaded 2.10.2 and finally got a working binary. Will check out.

thanks for the info



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