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 time (more than 10 hours) ; now this morning I launched it again with no changes in files and it took a few minutes to check the whole bunch of files... So my fault: I thought the files actually being transferred where only those marked with +++++++, and that is not true; also those marked >f..tp..... are being transferred although not they are not changed; the time stamp probably is different although I really don't understand why.. when I attach the usb to the Mac, it doesn't recognize them as different and it goes very quickly; in the apple script I indicate that the Mac has a different unicode with iconv option (I had found it in rsync forum) see the script below; but when the usb is attached to the RPi it doesn't seem to take it into consideration, and it transfer the files. Now all it ended well, the sync is quick now that I transferred all teh files, I'm just wondering why in any case it took more than 10 hours (isn't it too much?) but most important why it considers the files has being different from the Mac to the RPi; now teh question is what if I attach Che usb to the Mac ? will it consider them again as having a different time stamp and will it copy them again from the scratch? that will will mean that I'm obliged to make the sync always from the same machine either the RPi or the Mac, otherwise one will always change the time stamp to the other, am I right? Best regards mibigo here is the apple script: on run tell application "Finder" to mount volume "smb://tc:tc@picore/myusbdrive" set {Button1, Button2} to {"Cancel", "OK"} display dialog "Sincronizzare la cartella Music su Raspberry Pi usb drive ?" set TheButton to button returned of the result if TheButton is Button1 then error number -128 -- a button named "Cancel" will also quit if TheButton is Button2 then do shell script "/usr/local/Cellar/rsync/3.2.3/bin/rsync -avhi --iconv=UTF-8,UTF8-MAC ~/Music/Music/MusicLibrary.musiclibrary /Volumes/mysusbdrive/Music > ~/Desktop/Library.log" do shell script "/usr/local/Cellar/rsync/3.2.3/bin/rsync -avhi --stats --delete --iconv=UTF-8,UTF8-MAC --exclude .DS_Store ~/Music/Music/Media/ /Volumes/myusbdrive/Music/Media > ~/Desktop/Media.log" say "Sincronizzazione terminata!" display dialog "Sincronizzazione terminata " & return & (current date) end if end run ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mibigo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71182 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115370 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter