For some strange reason, I was having issues with transferring select files using Unison from my Linux machine to my Mac after I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. My Unison version was the same on both, and nearly all files transferred as before, but I kept getting errors like:<\/p>\n
on a subset of files. (The path and filenames above are fake and illustrative.) It turned out the problem was there was a hidden file in files<\/em> named ._dining.doc<\/em> that was causing the failure. Once I deleted these hidden files, everything worked!<\/p>\n (Last updated August 24, 2021.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some strange reason, I was having issues with transferring select files using Unison from my Linux machine to my Mac after I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. My Unison version was the same on both, and nearly all files transferred as before, but I kept getting errors like: failed: files\/dining.doc on a subset […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnny-lin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}failed: files\/dining.doc<\/code><\/p>\n