update: rclone worked on my troubled Windows 10 box. not sure if rclone can do sync via ssh yet, nor if it can do sync incrementally yet as rsync can for both thank you all for your help -- Sent from: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-list-f3.html -- 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