<div dir="ltr">I'm sure that will fix it but what am I doing wrong in my attempts to rename them?<div><br></div><div><div>$ mv *:* *=*</div><div>mv: target ‘*=*’ is not a directory</div><div>$ mv *:* *-*</div><div>mv: target ‘darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory</div><div>$ mv *:* ./*-*</div><div>mv: target ‘./darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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the filesystem is probably FAT because it is a thumb drive....<br></span><span class="">
rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit.CccL3o" failed: Invalid argument (22)<br>
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It is not possible to have a ':' character in a filename on a FAT-based filesystem. This is because that character was used to denote which disk drive a file was on back in the DOS days... "C:\junk\stuff.txt" and so forth.<br>
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I am not sure what these hidden files contain, or whether they're actually important. You can pass the "--exclude *\:*" option to rsync to tell it to not try to transfer files that contain ':' characters, which may help.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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