by Mike Hanratty.
Hi Ken, this is the first time I've seen this problem. This is an old, old moodle that has been running for years, updated regularly. It is running on SuSE server where moodledata is in /srv/www. Everythig else is working perfectly
The odd thing is that is effecting only one file in the backups.
I followed your suggestions and found the contenthash for the offending file:
2e96b45149355d189ec0251cdd46564dfff19d61
I went to ../2e/96 but it was empty. Of all the directories in ./2e, 96 had permissions of 777.
Weird!
Thanks, Mike