[[!comment format=mdwn username="luca@b7e273474d087a5c7fc4428503f21d5624636d9f" nickname="luca" subject="comment 4" date="2016-02-05T06:43:11Z" content=""" I get this error on OS X when setting the `-J` parameter to > 1, this works: git annex copy --to usb -J1 --auto This consistently throughs the error (but seems to copy everything): git annex copy --to usb -J2 --auto I'm running 6.20160126 on version 5 repositories. """]]