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 Osync can work with in three flavors: Quick sync mode, configuration file mode, and daemon mode.
 While quick sync mode is convenient to do fast syncs between some directories, a configuration file gives much more functionnality.
-Please use double quotes as path delimiters. Do not use escaped characters in directory names.
+Please use double quotes as path delimiters. Do not use escaped characters in path names.
 
 QuickSync example
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