• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    Show All Files During Migration

    When doing a data migration in OS X, you find that you often want to build a list of files on the source and the target media and then compare the two lists. When you do such a copy it’s important to verify that the data is all there. To find all the files on a drive, use the find command. If you’re in the working directory of the volume you’re transfering files from, the following command would show you all of the files on the volume: find . -name "*" To dump the contents to a file, use the > followed by the filename. So to list the contents…