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+I import my phone apps' backups to a subdirectory via an ADB special remote and `importtree=yes` but every time I run a sync, it tries to copy files to it that are below numcopies; even those outside the relevant sub-directory.
+
+How can I make it so that it never tries to copy any files to it? `exporttree=no`, it will provably never work.
+
+Note that you can't make it want `nothing` because that also prevents import from working.
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="nobodyinperson"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/736a41cd4988ede057bae805d000f4f5"
+ subject="numcopies is no the target"
+ date="2023-12-17T19:04:41Z"
+ content="""
+Syncing doesn't work towards satisfying `numcopies`, just preferred content. So if you find files to be copied to the phone, then its preferred content matches those files. Maybe try `git annex wanted PHONE 'present or approxlackingcopies=1'` or just `git annex wanted PHONE present`. `nothing` is indeed not a good idea as that will have git-annex wanting to yank everything off the phone.
+"""]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Atemu"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/86b8c2d893dfdf2146e1bbb8ac4165fb"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2023-12-18T12:08:08Z"
+ content="""
+`present` isn't allowed for special remotes with `importtree=yes`.
+"""]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="oadams"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/ac166a5f89f10c4108e5150015e6751b"
+ subject="comment 9"
+ date="2023-12-16T21:37:21Z"
+ content="""
+A belated thanks for the follow-up from https://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Using_git_annex_as_a_library/
+
+Not that its useful for anyone here, but just FWIW after some more playing around I decided to keep things minimal and not depend on git-annex as a library. Although what I'm making naturally pairs well with git-annex it doesn't really require it, so adding the dependency just complicates things.
+"""]]