rsync - same size, content, owner, group, permissions, time - yet it wants to copy

rsync - same size, content, owner, group, permissions, time - yet it wants to copy

Using macOS Mojave. Using the default filesystem in the source dir (apfs per df?), FAT32 in the dest dir (msdos per df).

Run out of ideas.

1 Answer

Try adding --modify-window=1. From the rsync man page:

--modify-window When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats the timestamps as being equal if they differ by no more than the modify-window value. This is normally 0 (for an exact match), but you may find it useful to set this to a larger value in some situations. In particular, when transferring to or from an MS Windows FAT filesystem (which represents times with a 2-second resolution), --modify-window=1 is useful (allowing times to differ by up to 1 second).