consistency and grammatical tweaks

Change-Id: I0a1dc9e07f246db3e294f5c62f4ffbd3560b0afd
Fixed bug in object replicator

If the object replicator couldn't create a device's object directory
(due to permissions or whatever) it wouldn't do any work at all. This
fixes that.

Change-Id: I6a30439d036b29c9cfdb660428d13668e0dc8632
Merge "consistency and grammatical tweaks"
Merge "Fixed bug in object replicator"