I use Unison to sync folder between MacOS and external SSD drive connected via usb. External drive has ExFAT file system.
If I execute Unison by specifying two roots, then it works fine.
<code>unison /Users/user.name/Nextcloud /Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud -fat=true
</code>
<code>unison /Users/user.name/Nextcloud /Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud -fat=true
</code>
unison /Users/user.name/Nextcloud /Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud -fat=true
But when I execute Unison using profile, then it fails with an error
<code>❯ unison nextcloud
Unison 2.53.7 (ocaml 5.2.0): Contacting server...
Error: Cannot find canonical name of "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud": unable to cd either to it ("/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud": No such file or directory)
or to its parent "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook
("/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook: No such file or directory)
</code>
<code>❯ unison nextcloud
Unison 2.53.7 (ocaml 5.2.0): Contacting server...
Error: Cannot find canonical name of "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud": unable to cd either to it ("/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud": No such file or directory)
or to its parent "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook
("/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook: No such file or directory)
</code>
❯ unison nextcloud
Unison 2.53.7 (ocaml 5.2.0): Contacting server...
Error: Cannot find canonical name of "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud": unable to cd either to it ("/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud": No such file or directory)
or to its parent "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook
("/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook: No such file or directory)
My profile contains exactly the same root folders and looks like this
<code>❯ cat /Users/user.name/Library/Application Support/Unison/nextcloud.prf
root = "/Users/user.name/Nextcloud"
root = "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud"
fat = true
</code>
<code>❯ cat /Users/user.name/Library/Application Support/Unison/nextcloud.prf
root = "/Users/user.name/Nextcloud"
root = "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud"
fat = true
</code>
❯ cat /Users/user.name/Library/Application Support/Unison/nextcloud.prf
root = "/Users/user.name/Nextcloud"
root = "/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud"
fat = true
I can cd to “/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook/nextcloud”. I noticed that error message has only on opening quotation mark ("/Volumes/ssd_sync/macbook: No such file or directory). Could you be related? If yes what could be the reason for this?
My main question is how to make Unison work for my case using a profile?