> rsync is apparently extremely inefficient in a number of common cases, such as simply renaming a folder (completing synchronizing all the files in the folder

> rsync is apparently extremely inefficient in a number of common cases, such as simply renaming a folder (completing synchronizing all the files in the folder again). If you run it the normal way this is (sadly) true. However you can use the `--fuzzy` flag to make the behaviour a little more clever in handling this specific case.