ls -h doesn't show hidden files, it shows the files sizes in "h"uman 
readable format.

Do an ls -a to show "a"ll the files, including the hidden ones.

Also I think you might need to add a trailing / to your destination 
directory to get it to work correctly.

Brian

On 05/09/2016 04:49 PM, Michael wrote:
> forgot to mention that when I'm copying from original to destination 
> w/o rsync i am asked if I want to skip or replace an existing file 
> even though the file is not visible. I attempted to do an ls -h but 
> the file is not hidden.
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com 
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     When I run rsync one file (a directory) will not sync and the
>     files in that file. I was wondering why. I thought that maybe if
>     the file was in there to start that would fix it and it does so if
>     only temporarily. Upon the next run of rsync the directory in
>     question is deleted.
>
>     the command that is run:
>      $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
>     /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>
>
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAfv-aLaQR6HWUx8M-aZF4QL8oAsi6SH2Xg01vKpTPI/edit?usp=sharing
>
>     -- 
>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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