shatfield1529
s|hatfield not shat|field
Alright, here's my situation;
About four months ago, I backed up my 20 GB-ish music library from my iBook to an external Firewire HD that my parents use. Since then, I haven't done anything with the Firewire HD, so its contents are practically a snapshot of my music library as it was back then. The music library on my iBook, however, has gone through a lot of pruning and expansion, ending up lighter by a few GB.
What I want to do is make it so that everything that is on the Firewire HD is on my iBook and everything that is on my iBook is on the Firewire HD. In other words, I want a complete set of music files on both drives. I can't replace the music library on the iBook with the music library from the Firewire HD, as that'll overwrite all of the stuff I've added in the last four years. I can't do the opposite because that'll overwrite everything that I had four months ago that I've deleted from the iBook. I really don't want to go folder by folder and compare the two and copy each file that isn't on one of the two drives, because... well, that would take a heck of a lot of time.
Is there a freeware/shareware solution for this? I know of rsync, but I'm not comfortable enough with Unix to risk losing a ton of data by forgetting to include a particular option or parameter.
I appreciate all of your guys' help.
About four months ago, I backed up my 20 GB-ish music library from my iBook to an external Firewire HD that my parents use. Since then, I haven't done anything with the Firewire HD, so its contents are practically a snapshot of my music library as it was back then. The music library on my iBook, however, has gone through a lot of pruning and expansion, ending up lighter by a few GB.
What I want to do is make it so that everything that is on the Firewire HD is on my iBook and everything that is on my iBook is on the Firewire HD. In other words, I want a complete set of music files on both drives. I can't replace the music library on the iBook with the music library from the Firewire HD, as that'll overwrite all of the stuff I've added in the last four years. I can't do the opposite because that'll overwrite everything that I had four months ago that I've deleted from the iBook. I really don't want to go folder by folder and compare the two and copy each file that isn't on one of the two drives, because... well, that would take a heck of a lot of time.
Is there a freeware/shareware solution for this? I know of rsync, but I'm not comfortable enough with Unix to risk losing a ton of data by forgetting to include a particular option or parameter.
I appreciate all of your guys' help.