Note to self: when changing a laptop's internal hard drive, first ensure laptop is off, and not merely hibernating. Well you can always swap the hard drive back in and restore the hibernated state :D You can! But if you wake up the laptop, then it's time to reimage the new drive you put in, because whatever happened to its file system wasn't what you were hoping for. lucky for me the two drives are clones of one another. Still, derp. don't you jus tremove battery? it's so easy to remove batteries, that it seems that even if you don't have to you may as well doesn't really address the whole hibernated to one disk but not the other part of that, haha It's a mac. The battery is harder to get out than the drive. oh Can anyone see what in `rsync -avz --delete --exclude={'.DS_Store','node_modules'} --rsync-path="mkdir -p ~/tmp/local/ && mkdir -p ~/tmp/remote/ && rsync" ~/tmp/local/ ~/tmp/remote/` would fail to create the source path if it does not exist? Got it (mkdir -p ~/tmp/local/ ~/tmp/remote/ && rsync -av --delete --exclude={'.DS_Store','node_modules'} ~/tmp/local/ ~/tmp/remote/) Does anyone know why http://pastebin.com/ejEjd5PC would successfully create the destination when the source changes, however the ~/tmp/remote/ directory only, none of its files?