From 5d01d266fb028779a386e835c605860292e65d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gus Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:19:41 +0000 Subject: --- .../What_am_I_doing_wrong_with_move__63__.mdwn | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/What_am_I_doing_wrong_with_move__63__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/What_am_I_doing_wrong_with_move__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/What_am_I_doing_wrong_with_move__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0bf0980c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/What_am_I_doing_wrong_with_move__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +I still have little experience with git-annex, so I may be missing something fairly obvious. + +I have been moving files between two repositories. Things *seemed* to be going well, but today I noticed that I was missing some content that I have just moved. I would like some help to figure out where I went wrong to avoid doing worse mistakes in the future. + +What I did was to run the command `git-annex move --from=toshiba` to move a bunch of files from my USB unit to my current repository and then I ran `git-annex sync` on both ends. Afterwards I noticed that the content of the files was not available, so I tried to track one of them. +What I could see in my local indirect repository was a broken symbolic link pointing to `../.git/annex/objects/ZQ/WF/SHA256E-s241--f3d7e5d1f788235b8eec0af58cc0c526b112b9e834a47ba7a475876c49dce343.jpg/SHA256E-s241--f3d7e5d1f788235b8eec0af58cc0c526b112b9e834a47ba7a475876c49dce343.jpg`. + +`git-annex info` gave me similar information: + + file: Heavy Metal 1981.jpg + size: 241 bytes + key: SHA256E-s241--f3d7e5d1f788235b8eec0af58cc0c526b112b9e834a47ba7a475876c49dce343.jpg + +`git-annex whereis` locates the file still on its origin: + + whereis Heavy Metal 1981.jpg (1 copy) + 49b5b3a4-56ac-4cf2-aed9-1c23d3181c97 -- Toshiba USB HDD [toshiba] + ok + +On my external HDD drive, where I have an indirect mode repository, the file has already been replaced by a reference (241 bytes). + + $ cat "Heavy Metal 1981.jpg" + ../../../../../../../../../media/TOSHIBA EXT/annex/.git/annex/objects/4z/gf/SHA256E-s245--ae647e7ad31089255413a9290ca9344542f3cd15ecef66884613bf776387633d.jpg/SHA256E-s245--ae647e7ad31089255413a9290ca9344542f3cd15ecef66884613bf776387633d.jpg + +`git-annex log` remembers something about the operation: + + + Tue, 17 May 2016 12:22:43 WEST Heavy Metal 1981.jpg | 49b5b3a4-56ac-4cf2-aed9-1c23d3181c97 -- Toshiba USB HDD [toshiba] + +I tried to `git-annex get "Heavy Metal 1981.jpg"`, and now I have a working symlink on my PC. However it does not point to the image, but to the same 241 bytes reference file that I have on my external HDD. + +`git-annex whereis` now mentions 2 locations to my file, but none of the working dirs holds its contents. So, where are the contents of the file? Lost somewhere? It appears that git-annex took the indirect mode reference file and took it for the real file contents -- and that is not good. + +I looked at the output of `git-annex unused`, cross-referenced with `git log --stat -S` and I managed to find it somewhere in the list of unused files in my PC's repository, but not on the external drive. + +Still, at this point I'm a little worried. I would like to understand what I could have done to cause this mess. Also, how I can clean it up (the rest of the files remain as broken links at the moment). + +I have a couple more drives I wanted to add to this setup, but you can understand that I hesitate a little bit at the moment. Maybe I have "lost" more data than I realize. + +The version details: + + git-annex version: 6.20160511 + build flags: Assistant Webapp Pairing Testsuite S3(multipartupload)(storageclasses) WebDAV Inotify DBus DesktopNotify XMPP ConcurrentOutput TorrentParser MagicMime Feeds Quvi + key/value backends: SHA256E SHA256 SHA512E SHA512 SHA224E SHA224 SHA384E SHA384 SHA3_256E SHA3_256 SHA3_512E SHA3_512 SHA3_224E SHA3_224 SHA3_384E SHA3_384 SKEIN256E SKEIN256 SKEIN512E SKEIN512 SHA1E SHA1 MD5E MD5 WORM URL + remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web bittorrent webdav tahoe glacier ddar hook external + local repository version: 5 + supported repository versions: 5 6 + upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 4 5 + operating system: linux x86_64 -- cgit v1.2.3