Hello, I have the same structure on 2 machines. I want to keep them in sync. I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD and then rsync from the other as follows ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/ ./Documents/ Password: receiving file list ... done Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods But the file ~/Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods on the machine I am issuing the command on does not change! What am I doing wrong? John