On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael wrote: > the filesystem is probably FAT because it is a thumb drive.... > rsync: mkstemp > "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit.CccL3o" > failed: Invalid argument (22) 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. 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. -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss