Synchronizing folders nautilus

[Leon]

"Trond Danielsen" <trond.danielsen at gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/26/06, Ankush Grover <ankush174 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/26/06, Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > does anyone here know if it is possible to synchronize two folders
>> > with nautilus? For instance when I want to copy some new podcasts to
>> > my iaudio player, nautilus only gives me the option to either skip
>> > everything, and then nothing is copied, or overwrite everything, and
>> > then everything is copied, wich takes a long time since I have a lot
>> > of podcasts...
>> >
>> > --
>> > Trond Danielsen
>> >
>> hey,
>>
>> You can use rsync with -u which will update only the destination directory.
>>
>> You can also use Unison.Read the article below.
>>
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7712
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ankush
>>
>
> I have considered both, but I am looking for a solution that
> integrates better with Nautilus.

Have you considered using nautilus-scripts? I mean you can use `zenity
--file-selection --directory' to selection the target folder, and use
'cp -u' to sync source and target dirs. It seems quite easy to
implement, all you need to know is shell scripting.

>
> -- 
> Trond Danielsen

-- 
Leon