On 7/30/07, boricua <boricua at despiertapr.com> wrote: > in that case it just gave a user of 500? > > 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 14 500 502 4.0K 2007-07-15 08:08 zoe/ As you hinted earlier, that probably means there's no user "zoe" on the destination, so rsync preserved the owner by number instead of name. If you create a "zoe" on the destination, rsync will use it. Matt