Problem: rsync seems to indicate that files have disappeared during the transfer when this is not the case. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create files.txt with "foo/bar". (Make sure "foo/" doesn't exist.) 2. Run: rsync --delete-missing-args -v --files-from=files.txt . remote-host: Output: building file list ... file has vanished: "/home/vegard/foo" done default_perms_for_dir: sys_acl_get_file(foo, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT): No such file or directory, falling back on umask sent 30 bytes received 129 bytes 45.43 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0] Expected behaviour: With --delete-missing-args I would expect nonexistant files (and files in nonexistant directories) to be deleted on the remote host without any warnings or error codes. Workaround: Check for exit code 24 and ignore it. (But this has the drawback of potentially ignoring warnings about files which really did disappear after rsync had been started.)