[aidos]

We sync content to MS hosted Sharepoint using rsync. When the file arrives, they change the internal metadata inside the file, which changes the checksum, which causes rsync to think the content is different and needs syncing again.

Edit to say: this is for MS files like Excel docs

[elygre]

Is that a supported method?

[crmd]

Supported by who? Microsoft?

If a file server breaks basic Unix tools it should be unplugged and put in the garbage.