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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://edheil.wordpress.com/"
+ ip="173.162.44.162"
+ subject="comment 3"
+ date="2012-12-07T19:34:40Z"
+ content="""
+Built a new copy of git-annex yesterday.  I have a \"client\" on my macbook, and two \"backup\"s, one on an external HD, one on an ssh git remote.
+
+git annex get --auto works beautifully!
+
+It doesn't seem to work for copying content *to* a place where it's needed, though.
+
+If I drop a file from my \"backup\" USB drive, and then go back to my macbook and do a \"git annex sync\" and \"git annex copy --to=usbdrive --auto\" it does not send the file out to the USB drive, even though by preferred content settings, the USB drive should \"want\" the file because it's a backup drive and it wants all content.
+
+Similarly, if I add a new file on my macbook and then do a \"git annex copy --to=usbdrive auto\" it does not get copied to the USB drive.
+
+Is this missing functionality, or should the preferred content setting for remotes only affect the assistant?   (It does work fine with the assistant!  It'd just be neat if I could use it when I'm just command-lining things, just like with get)
+
+"""]]