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I've been trying to use git-annex with the following strategy.

* Download podcasts into the annex `gpodder-downloads`
* Check the podcasts into the annex using `git annex add`.
* Copy the podcasts over to my mp3 player in the annex `usb-ariaz`.
  This is a FAT-formatted mp3 player, so I have been using a bare
  repository.  
* Move the podcasts to a different annex called `gpodder-on-usbdisk`
  to indicate that they have been successfully put on the mp3 player.
* `chmod` the files on the mp3 player to `0600` so that I can delete
  them from the player when I am done listening to them.
  
Then I go for a run or something and listen to a bunch of podcasts,
deleting them after I have listened to them.  When I get back, I would
like to find the files that I have listened to and remove them from
the annexes that are not on the mp3 player.  What I have been hoping
is that something like

    ~/gpodder-on-usbdisk $ git annex find --not --in usb-ariaz --print0 | xargs -0 git rm
    ~/gpodder-on-usbdisk $ git annex unused
    ~/gpodder-on-usbdisk $ git annex dropunused `seq X`
	
would work.  However, it appears that `git-annex find` does not
actually check to see that the file contents are present, but only
looks at the `git-annex` branch of the `usb-ariaz` repository.  Since
I have not changed that with my sneaky deletions, it has no way of
knowing that the files have been deleted.

Is there any way to do this properly?  (And by properly, I don't mean
"don't delete the files".  That is really the only way I have of
marking that I have listened to podcasts on this particular mp3 player.)

I tried setting the `usb-ariaz` repository to be untrusted, but that
did not change the behavior of `git annex find`.