diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html
index 0f79edee9..7a288c3e8 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ operation as <a href="../CoreTypes/filterset.html">filtersets</a>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">failonerror</td>
-     <td valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the build,
-       when the file to copy does not exist.
-       Only meaningful when copying a single file.
+     <td valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the
+       build, when the file to copy does not exist or one of the nested
+       filesets points to a directory that doesn't exist.
      </td>
      <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
   </tr>
diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/move.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/move.html
index c2e1982ec..2af559294 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/move.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/move.html
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ to move to the <var>todir</var> directory.</p>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">failonerror</td>
-     <td valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the build,
-       when the file to move does not exist.
-       Only meaningful when moving a single file.
+     <td valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the
+       build, when the file to copy does not exist or one of the nested
+       filesets points to a directory that doesn't exist.
      </td>
      <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
   </tr>
diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html
index 7d24a0c1e..35c344b22 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/sync.html
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ more filesets.</p>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">failonerror</td>
-     <td valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the build,
+     <tcd valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the build,
        when one of the nested filesets points to a directory that
        doesn't exist.
      </td>