Hi, to consolidate all my various code repositories into one area I wanted to use "aliases" The idea being: scp -pr root@8.8.8.8:/somed/nested /Users/comp01/Downloads/usedonserver01/ where downloads might contain: /Downloads/usedonserver01/ /Downloads/usedonserver02/ The aliases pointing to actual storage folders but i find that SCP flatly refuses to work with apple alias folders. replace the alias and it works fine /Users/comp01/Downloads/usedonserver/: Not a directory