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CWR sync had difficulties dealing with long path names under Windows. If you haven't heard of CWR sync, try it. That may be a better solution for you than running proper R sync in WSL. Another thing you might try is another client called Acrosync that didn't exist back then. It looks good from the screenshots on the webpage.