Hi,

What does "(xfer#33, to-check=776/780)" mean? I assume it's copying file 776 of 780, but why does it start at 776 and not 780? This number decreases but often jumps a few numbers, from 772 to 769 for example; why would that be? Nautilus reports there are 777 items in this folder; why would rsync think there are 3 more items?

I assume it is safe to cancel the rsync process (with Ctrl+c) and resume later with the same command (rsync -a /src /dest)? I don't want to end up with partial files!

Thanks

The reason it jumps around a bit is because of the speed it goes through the files... a few byte file will likely not even display before it's done being checked. My initial guess would be a hidden directory or something nautilus is not counting (. .. maybe?) goto the directory and do a wc on the files.

> The reason it jumps around a bit is because of the speed it goes through
> the files... a few byte file will likely not even display before it's done being checked.

OK I see. I noticed when copying larger amounts of data, that the first number would often repeat itself. For example it would always be between 1,000 and 1,200/60,000. Later I noticed the second number went up to 80,000. I don't quite understand why this is behaving this way.

> My initial guess would be a hidden directory or something nautilus is not counting (. ..
> maybe?) goto the directory and do a wc on the files.

OK thanks I will check this.