Thanks Bruce, and of course you're right. That is what I realized about one hour after I posted the message and thought more carefully about it.
I knew I felt kind of dumb when I sent the message and it will teach me to take a bit more time to think something over before I post a question.
Greg
Does this seem reasonable or have I done something dumb and possibly misinterpreted what occurred? That couldn't be, could it?
Wouldn't the more likely answer be that the .nfs directory was never in the snapshot, and was rather created in Copy #1 via something that happened there afterwards (perhaps even as part of the rsync process), and that didn't happen in Copy #2?
Bruce