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+I'm not sure if this is my stupidity or if it's a bug, but
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+    git annex copy --force --to REMOTE . 
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+just zip's through really quickly and doesn't actually force a copy to a remote location. This is just following up on the [[git-annex directory hashing problems on osx]]. I want to just do a force copy of all my data to my portable disk to really make sure that the data is really there. I would similarly would want to make sure I can force a 
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+    git annex copy --force --from REMOTE .
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+to pull down files from a remote.