Invalid argument (22) and rsync

[Matt Graham]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael <bmike1 at 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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