[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2016-06-02T17:10:48Z" content=""" What's going on here is, you have cloned a gcrypt repository so have it as the origin remote. git-annex is storing files in that remote as if it were a regular git remote. It's not being used as a special remote at all. This is surely a bug; git-annex should notice that remote has a gcrypt-id and treat it as a gcrypt remote, or refuse to use it since it's not set up as a special remote. It also seems that only git annex sync --content behaves this way; git annex copy "cannot determine uuid for origin". """]]