Re: StepSync 0.1 : wrong path and folders empty

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Riccardo,

I built the last release of StepSync I found from the gap repo (i.e. 
1.1 according to the info panel) and I could test a sync of a large 
amount of data from a mounted usb hard drive (source) to my ssd drive 
(target) where my home directory is set : 15,5 GiB with a plenty of 
subfolders and 2679 files (music). All those folders ans files were 
created/copied and the analysis did a correct check after all.
I also noted that the gauge (progress bar) was working fine.

Cheers,
Patrick

On 2020-06-29 23:28:29 +0200 Riccardo Mottola 
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> Patrick Cardona via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming 
> environment 
> wrote:
> > Hi Riccardo,
>
> > I added some subfolders of subfolders... with new files to the 
> > source 
> > folder. F.e. :
>
> > TRAVAIL/COURS/3LA/Dictee39
> > TRAVAIL/COURS/3LA/Dictee310
>
> > When I made a sync with StepSync to the target :
> > 'TRAVAIL' on a removable device
> > where the path 'COURS/3LA' was already there,
> > I found two issues :
>
> > 1) The new subfolders have been appended at the root of the Target 
> > folder 
> > 'TRAVAIL' : bad path. We should expect the new path to be created 
> > like 
> > 'mkdir -p in the CLI'.
> > 2) And these folders were empty : we should not expect the files to 
> > be 
> > copied in each folder when the path is wrong. So the 2nd issue 
> > seemed 
> > linked to the first.
>
> > I suspected something went wrong because the status between the two 
> > folders 
> > showed inconsistent numbers in the window of StepSync after it 
> > proceeded.
>
> > Are you using something like rsync under the UI ?
> > Maybe you already know those issues and planned to correct those in 
> > the 
> > upcoming release ?
>
>
> this is a little bit unexpected, I have used StepSync hundreds of 
> times for 
> my own use.
> I do not use rsync under the UI, the engine is "mine" and completely 
> written 
> inside GNUstep's Base capabilities.
>
> However, I did really a lot of work in 0.2 comparted to past release. 
> Really 
> revamped the core, added multi-threading and fixed countless things. 
> I never 
> have seen your specific bug, but maybe it is "fixed by miracle" ?
> Now that you have full GAP you could try it if you want.
>
> Riccardo