Hi, Windows 7 GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-08-27 (backup-by-copying t) When I tramp to a host (linux) and edit a file, and save it, I get an error about the backup as below. The ACL is in different format on Linus and on Windows. It is "user::..." on linux, however, it looks like "O:S-1-5-21-" on windows. Could we allow the user to set whether to copy ACl for certain type of files? Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Converting ACL" "Invalid argument" "c:/Users/user/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/!drive_c!plink!!user@host !!!path!user!Ava!_mortality.R.~1~") set-file-acl("c:/Users/user/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/!drive_c!plink!!user@host!!!path!user!Ava!_mortality.R.~1~" "user::rw-\ngroup::rw-\nother::r--\n") set-file-extended-attributes("c:/Users/user/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/!drive_c!plink!!user@host!!!path!user!Ava!_mortality.R.~1~" ((acl . "user::rw-\ngroup::rw-\nother::r--\n") (selinux-context nil nil nil nil))) backup-buffer-copy("/plink:user@host:/path/user/Ava/_mortality.R" "c:/Users/user/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/!drive_c!plink!!user@host!!!path!user!Ava!_mortality.R.~1~" 436 ((acl . "user::rw-\ngroup::rw-\nother::r--\n") (selinux-context nil nil nil nil))) backup-buffer() basic-save-buffer-2() basic-save-buffer-1() basic-save-buffer(t) save-buffer(1) funcall-interactively(save-buffer 1) call-interactively(save-buffer nil nil) command-execute(save-buffer) Best Regards, Shuguang