I did. Maybe I should give it another shot. I recall my problem was trying to understand how to sync files I already had in other directories. Things certainly

I did. Maybe I should give it another shot. I recall my problem was trying to understand how to sync files I already had in other directories. Things certainly were not sync'd automatically. In the walkthrough it says you need to git-add files and then git-commit them http://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/#index3h2 http://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/#index3h2 The ~/annex/ directory ended up with symlinks to git objects and the files themselves are nowhere to be found. I didn't know where things were/weren't sync'd already. Nothing sync'd across and the assistant just said "all done" or something similar. At one point I remeber it just containing a bunch of broken symlinks. Good job I was just testing it out, imagine if it replaced my actual files with broken symlinks. What all this boils down to is that git-annex is not as fool-proof as the proprietary solutions claim to be and something equally Free as g-a, but less complicated, would be great.