Please copy/paste the entire command and the entire output. What you provided is not a command.

@jgacuca

You may want to take a look at the guide here at DigitalOcean which covers rsync and syncing local to remote.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps#how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-with-a-remote-system

@Woet , I did but this is the error I keep getting

rsync: change_dir "/Users/jamesvanwaza/Dropbox/htdocs/2017/January" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1655) [Receiver=3.1.1]
rsync: [Receiver] write error: Broken pipe (32)

@jgacuca

The command to push updates from a local directory to a remote directory would be:

rsync -a ~/dir1 username@remote_host:destination_directory

So if you’re local directory (the one on your computer) is:

/path/to/my/files

… and the remote directory (the one on your Droplet) is:

/home/username/files

… then we’d use the following. This assumes you’re transferring files as the root user to your Droplet. You’ll need to replace DROPLET_IP with your Droplet’s Public IP address and make sure you update the paths as this is just an example.

rsync -a /path/to/my/files root@DROPLET_IP:/home/username/files

You have to specify both paths, even if you’re running the command from the directory that you’re transferring files from. Also note the : between DROPLET_IP and the remote path.

@Woet that is where the files are hosted locally.

@Woet, let me know how to check if user has access to folder,

Error

@Woet I did, and it failed, see error.

On Mac

@Woet, Making Progress, I made a user using dscl, however the permissions is still being denied.

Folder Upload

@jgacuca

Starting a new reply as the previous one is at it’s limit.

You’re not using root as I specified in the command I provided :-). As a result, unless the user you’re trying to upload as owns that directory, the command will fail.

For example, you’re trying to connect using jgacuca567 in the screenshot. If that user doesn’t own the directory /var/www/html, then that user will not be allowed to upload files to it.

You can see who owns the directory by running:

ls -al /var/www

You would need to run (on the Droplet):

chown -R jgacuca567:jgacuca567 /var/www/html

To change ownership of the files and directories if you plan on using that user with rsync. The root user doesn’t require any specific permissions simply because it’s root and root has access to read and write to any directory or file.