RsyncX - Configuration

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Quick RsyncX Script Generator Configuration

Once RsyncX is installed, you will find it in your /Applications/Utilities folder. Starting RsyncX opens this window. For easy onscreen hints, hold the pointer over an item for its ToolTip.

From here, you can either start sending files from one location to another, or you can create and save your scripts for file tranfers at a later time. A saved script can be started by double-clicking on its icon.

More notes about source and destination folders:
RsyncX can send single files or entire folders from the source location to the destination location. When sending folders, you can decide whether or not to send the entire folder or just the contents of the folder by using a trailing slash character: "/". The slash tells rsync that you would like the contents of the named folder, but not the folder itself. This is especially useful when you would like the destination to have a different name for its folder that the source, without placing the source folder itself inside of the destination. So by adding the trailing slash to the source folder name, the destination will either receive the contents into an existing folder, or place the contents of the source folder into a new folder named in the destination field.

Some Examples, where /data is a folder, OSX is a drive (volume), and file1 is a non-app file:

1. Send folder from source to destination, which creates /Volumes/OSX/data

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