I'm sure that will fix it but what am I doing wrong in my attempts to rename them?

$ mv *:* *=*
mv: target ‘*=*’ is not a directory
$ mv *:* *-*
mv: target ‘darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory
$ mv *:* ./*-*
mv: target ‘./darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory


On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> 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.

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