> What you need to find out is what the files for which this happens have > in common, plus a couple of extra conditions. They are all .exe files! most of them were created from cygwin using g++.
> Is UAC enabled? Elevated or non-elevated shell? Access control via Active Directory. No idea about elevation (do not know that). I am listed in the administrator group of the main machine I use (corporate PC). > Are you using the same account on all machines (Active Directory), or do > you use different accounts (at least one machine is a stand-alone > workstation)? In fact since I formatted the disks in ntfs, I have used them on only one PC (the one used to format the disks). On that PC, I am listed in the Administrators group. It is rare that I plug the USB disk on another PC. When it is the case, it is with a different account and different windows version. > Is the drive formatted with all permissions for Everyone? Yes, I removed all other permissions (system, administrators, user, creater...) and left only Everyone with full control (at the root). > Which OS are you using, btw? Windows XP SP3 > Since the error occurs apparently in rename(2), it should be possible > to reproduce it without rsync, just with mv. No issue with mv on the same files! > Do you run a anti-virus/anti-malware program which might interfere here? Yes I use Symantec. No idea if it is an issue. It was not when my disks were formatted in fat32. > I just tried the same on W7 under UAC. First I rsynced an older > checkout of the Cygwin CVS repository onto the NTFS formatted USB stick, > then I updated the CVS checkout, then I rsynced it again. Worked fine. Thanks for that. I identified one file that was permanently failing to be saved had the following permissions on my hard drive: - Administraors: full control - Domain Users: Read&Execute, Read - MySelf: Modify, Read&Execute, Read, Write - SYSTEM: full control - Everyone: Read&Execute, Read - Users (computer\Users): Read&Execute, Read I added full control to my-self on the local hard drive and then rsync worked fine. On the USB disk the remaining ".file.exe.XXXX" has full control to everyone and only this which is fine. I then removed again the full control to my-self on the local hard drive and rsync failed again. Any clue? Thanks again, Frédéric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
