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Copying files from music folder to rockbox with rsync

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rsync --ignore-existing -v -P -r -h itunes /Volumes/IPOD/Music

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johnnyshankman commented Dec 29, 2025 •

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Example of a mirror sync (dangerous!) where orphaned/deleted files in the source are also deleted on the destination:

rsync -av --delete itunes/ /Volumes/IPOD/Music/itunes/

⚠️ This would delete anything in the destination that isn’t in the source.
⚠️ Can take hours with 1000s of songs

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