diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html
index 7426fda5b..7ec4971f1 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ dir, it will get removed from the target.</p>
     <td valign="top">includeEmptyDirs</td>
      <td valign="top">Copy any empty directories included in the resource collection(s).
      </td>
-     <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
+     <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">failonerror</td>