Just as clarification, when I said the directory does not exist I mean that is was properly deleted by the server/receiving side. It appears as if rsync did everything that it should but an error code of zero is being returned and the exit code is set to 23, non-zero. Full options: -ruvvityz --compress-level=9 --links --ignore-case --ignore-errors --stats --del --exclude-from=/cygdrive/c/DiffExclude.log Patches: Using the preallocate.diff and ignore-case.diff patches from the rsync-patches tarball for 3.0.0pre8. FYI, I was getting this issue on pre5 and still getting it with pre8. Rob