"file has vanished" Chinese characters...

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:27:50AM -0400, Peter wrote:
> During a synchronization I get many "file has vanished"
> messages; the filename contains question marks.

This cygwin/Windows induced bug has come up before.  One potentially
useful older message:

    http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-May/012638.html

The root of the problem is that Windows is lying to rsync about what the
filenames are, and no one has offered some advice on how to make the
lying stop (universally).

..wayne..