Please for the love of God fix how your client handles email threads. On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I was trying to do "rsync -a root at machine2:/somedirectory ." > > There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files. > > also tried "scp -r root at machine2:/somedirectory ." with the same result of too many files. How many files are in the directory here? I've never run across this sort of thing acting on the directory and not the files themselves. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell