Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-13 Thread mrw
mibigo wrote: > Your script with convmv of course could be useful, but why to do it > preliminarily if rsync does it anyway on the fly? No reason at all. I find it useful with CCC. mrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-13 Thread mibigo
mrw wrote: > You have not said that your Apple disk is APFS formatted, but I think > that it probably is. That being the case, I suspect that the reason for > the behaviour you observe is that the 3 files concerned have file names > in "UTF8", whereas all the other files with accented characters

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-13 Thread mrw
mibigo wrote: > and this is the rsync log, it always deletes an recreates the same 3 > files which have an accented ù and ó, but it doesn't do the same with > other file names that have other accented characters, like é, è, ê, ô, í > .. mrw wrote: > But with the introduction of APFS, confusion

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-13 Thread mibigo
mrw wrote: > > > Did you try rsync on Mac->USB without using '-iconv' at all ? > yes I tried, and I'm even more puzzled.. I set up a small usb-key to test, with a few files with accented filenames, and now I'm having rsync rewriting three of them all the times whatever option: without -iconv

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-12 Thread mrw
mibigo wrote: > > However, once done; if I leave the machine attached on the RPi and I > call my script (always through smb) I don't have any problem, rsync > works smoothly; it is just when I move the usb drive between Mac and > RPi. Given my recent finding, I am as surprised as you are that m

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-12 Thread mibigo
mrw wrote: > Well, it doesn't seem to be as simple as that. Either Apple has changed > matters since I last looked some years ago, or my memory is failing, or > both. > > While the ExFat drive, when mounted on the Mac, seemed to have these > files named in "UTF8-MAC" form, when I mounted it on

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-06 Thread mrw
mrw wrote: > Nevertheless, I confirm that the ---iconv- stanza does not seem to be > effective when copying from my APFS Mac drive on to an ExFat attached > volume. I seem to be getting files in UTF8-MAC on the ExFat drive, > regardless of whether they are UTF8-MAC or UTF-8 on the Mac APFS drive

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-06 Thread mrw
mibigo wrote: > Thank you very much mrw, a lot of information to digest for a not so > well informed guy. > I’ll go through it and will try what you say and tey to find out what > happens. > > Certainly, if pCP and LMS would add full support for HPF+ or APFS, > everything would be much simpler.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-06 Thread mibigo
Thank you very much mrw, a lot of information to digest for a not so well informed guy. I’ll go through it and will try what you say and tey to find out what happens. Certainly, if pCP and LMS would add full support for HPF+ or APFS, everything would be much simpler. Indeed i had to turn to exfat

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-05 Thread mrw
@mibigo Some thoughts: *1.* I believe that where you have ---iconv=UTF-8,UTF8-MAC- you would want to have - --iconv=UTF8-MAC,UTF-8-. Check that for yourself, google revealed it very quickly. Nevertheless, I confirm that the ---iconv- stanza does not seem to be effective when copying from my A

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-05 Thread mibigo
Dear MRW and Michael, thank you for answer; I probably misunderstood the meaning of the log. The fist time, (which I had not had the patience to let it complete beforehand) indeed it transferred some 20,135 files of the 25,935 files that I have in my library: which explains why it took so much

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-04 Thread mherger
I believe that even if there's an AppleScript launching rsync, it's crucial to understand how it is being called. Because there are modes where rsync would run on both ends, both processing data locally, whereas in other cases rsync would only run on the client. In the latter case _all_ data woul

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-04 Thread mrw
mibigo wrote: > > but when I then plug the usb in the RPi, sync never seem to finish, even > though I didn't add any new album. To give an idea it now running since > 5 hours now and it "processed" some 11,000 files (but with really > copying any) I'm looking at the log and I see thousands of li

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-04 Thread paul-
I’m going to have to defer to a Mac user. There are quite a few around, hopefully they will see this. You might try the usb2 port to see if there is any odd incompatibility. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (htt

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-04 Thread mibigo
Cheers, Paul. paul- wrote: > USB2 or 3? > > Rsync over ssh, or do you have the filesystem network mounted? > > How much data was being transferred. After moving the drive, it could > have possibly thought it needed to sync the all of the content. it's a USB3 Rsync is launched from my Mac w

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-04 Thread paul-
USB2 or 3? Rsync over ssh, or do you have the filesystem network mounted? How much data was being transferred. After moving the drive, it could have possibly thought it needed to sync the all of the content. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.pic

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Rsync Music Library with PcP USB drive incredibly slow

2021-11-04 Thread mibigo
Hi, Don't know if this has been already treated somewhere in the forum I couldn't find it. I have pCP 8.0 and LMS 8.2 and I have and USB drive WS 4TB attached to the Raspberry Pi4. I'm using Rsync to sync my Mac's Itunes library folder with the USB drive attached to the Pi4. And I found it insan