you need quotes around My Passport path because you have space in the volume name (My Passport), you could do without quotes, but than you have to escape space character like this: So the simple solution would be to create some folder on your My Passport disk and than sync it to that. '~' is a shortcut for home folder, so instead of writing /Users/Jan/ you put just ~, but, if you use that shortcut than you can't put the whole path under quotes. You're missing '/' before Volumes, when you put it like this without '/' you're telling it to search for a folder Volumes in the folder you're currently in, so if you're in your home folder ('/Users/Jan/') it will look for /Users/Jan/Volumes/My Passport/ and there's probably no such folder.Īnd there's another problem. Rsync -aE -delete ~/Desktop/testerfolder/ '/Volumes/My Passport/test_target/' So I would suggest that you make a folder on you My Passport disk and then run it, for example: Trashes because there's no such folder in your testerfolder/ folder. Trashes for deleted files) and these are usually locked. Is that you're syncing to root of your attached disk, and there are always some hidden folders in roots of hard disks (one is. I hope it isn't a bother to help me sort this out. Check the action’s properties and try running the workflow again. The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error. I tried with both -va and -aE and with and without quotes around the source folder. Rsync -va -delete '~/Desktop/testfolder/' 'Volumes/My Passport/' When I wrote and saved this in a RunShellScript in Automator: Rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/io.c(452) Rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) Rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/main.c(580) Rsync: push_dir#3 '/Users/Jan/Volumes' failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync: link_stat '/Users/Jan/~/Desktop/testfolder/.' failed: No such file or directory (2) Rsync -va -delete '~/Desktop/testfolder/' 'Volumes/My Passport'īuilding file list. Rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/main.c(992) Rsync: opendir “/Volumes/My Passport/.Trashes” failed: Permission denied (13) Rsync -aE -delete ~/Desktop/testerfolder/ '/Volumes/My Passport/' I have not used the terminal nor the Automator before, so I apologize in advance for my total lack of knowledge. I tried the modified version of your instructions found on practically efficient dot com.

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