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copied folders
I copied all of my folders and projects over to a larger drive. When I say to “Get Info”, the copied drive is 975GB and the master is 1.4TB. How did this happen? Is there a plug-in or something that will search out the difference?
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Yeah you can do this in Terminal easily. The command is “diff”: this will give you a list of differences between two volumes or directories. It looks like this
diff -rq FolderA FolderB
the ‘r’ flag to recursively compare all subdirs, and the ‘q’ for brief output, only showing the differences. If you’re not comfortable in CL that’s fine, just open Terminal and type
diff -rq
then put a space in, drag (from Finder) the first directory, then drag in the second directory, hit enter. Terminal will populate the directory location if you drag folders in.
This is the fastest way to get a list of files that never made it from A to B. Do a ‘man diff’ to get more options if you want them.
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diff -rq /Volumes/MEGATRON/\ TFH /Volumes/DUSTIN/\ TFH
Files /Volumes/MEGATRON/ TFH/4th of July/2010/.DS_Store and /Volumes/DUSTIN/ TFH/4th of July/2010/.DS_Store differThis is what terminal came up with, but i pulled up the info on the 2010 folders and they are exactly the same.
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