Some unchanged files keep being copied

[joebeone]

Alright, I'm having to reinstall 10.3.7 for the fourth time today. I must be dense... (we need a test-flight mode that will give you a summary of what it's about to do...)

Here's what I would like to do:

I want to copy (not have just symbolic links) all files from (source) drive to (target) drive that are in the /Users directory. I don't want anything else on the target drive touched.

Essentially, I'd like to be able to have Mac OS X 10.3.7 on the (target) and 10.3.9 on the (source) and from either of them, copy any newly changed files from one to the other.

Now, I've just ascertained that using "ignore *" and "ignore .*" with Smart Update will remove all the files on the target that are ignored. So, if I do:

ignore *
ignore .*
copy Users

This would result in, as you said, a drive with only a /Users/ directory on it.

What I would like to do is much more simple... similar to the behavior of rsync. Where the script would compare the contents of the /User directory trees and do a Smart Update (or only copy newer) between them so that only the truly new files are copied from one session to the other.

Is this possible? I would seem so... I feel silly for not being able to figure it out.