rsync'd a folder, folder doesn't show up, but free disk space decreased

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Published on 2013-11-09T17:56:51Z Indexed on 2013/11/10 16:12 UTC
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I am currently trying to switch from mac to windows/ubuntu dual boot (on 2 seperate internal HDDs), but ran into some trouble restoring my documents. I am not sure all the information below is necessary, but if I knew how to solve it, I wouldn't ask it here.

I backed up my mac before buying this laptop on an external HDD with Carbon Copy Cloner. I wanted to put these files on my user folder on my windows HDD, but I could not do that from inside windows (HFS+ format of mac), so I used rsync from inside Ubuntu to copy the documents from the ext hdd to the windows partition. It seemed like it went okay, but from inside windows (and later also Ubuntu) the folder didn't show up. My free HDD space, however, has reduced with about 200 GB (the size of the backup) when looking at the disk properties (from inside Windows and Ubuntu).

rsync command I used:

 rsync -av /media/patrick/Toshiba\ 1.5T/Users/patrickvandenberg/ /media/patrick/Windows8_OS/Users/Patrick/MacBackup/

Folder does not exist:

patrick@patrick-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y410P:~$ cd /media/patrick/Windows8_OS/Users/Patrick/MacBackup
bash: cd: /media/patrick/Windows8_OS/Users/Patrick/MacBackup: No such file or directory

Size of disk:

patrick@patrick-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y410P:~$ du -hs /media/patrick/Windows8_OS/
195G    /media/patrick/Windows8_OS/

Size of disk according to Disk properties:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/OteMX.png
(not enough rep to insert the image)

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