From d2b887ecb83f33eb1e38ee7d63bbf8c4be9e0ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: astrophoenix Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:16:42 +0000 Subject: post question about missing files --- doc/forum/help__44___a_bunch_of_files_disappeared.mdwn | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/help__44___a_bunch_of_files_disappeared.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/help__44___a_bunch_of_files_disappeared.mdwn b/doc/forum/help__44___a_bunch_of_files_disappeared.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..675ed094d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/help__44___a_bunch_of_files_disappeared.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +I have a large repo full of movies (dvd and blue-ray rips). I host it on my ubuntu linux 16.04 xenial system which sits next to my tv. + +I use git annex sync to copy stuff to my mac laptop running high sierra and I just updated to the brew version of git-annex there, 6.20171109 + +I also have a copy on my really old laptop running mac os x lion, that one has a really really old version running. + +I hadn't done a git annex sync in a long time. so I updated via brew on my high sierra laptop to 6.20171109 and ran git annex sync on the laptop, and then on my server. + +when I ran git annex sync on my server, i saw it modify the 6 or so movies which I had copied over to the old lion laptop long ago. those six movies are now pointed to hashes which don't exist, and when I look at the history, the previous hashes don't exist either. + +then I ran a git annex fsck on the server, and it listed tons of movies which is says have so known copies. at some point, all of them were on the server. I suspect, but don't know how to confirm, that all the movies are still sitting in the annex on the server, but many many of the links are wrong. + +how can I fix the links? + +thanks. -- cgit v1.2.3