Feature request: FTP skip files on errors in transfer

speller2 · Post by *speller2 » 2012-03-18, 12:41 UTC

Now I have about 2 GB of files in huge amount of files and folders on FTP server and need to download them. But. There is a magic russian letter with ASCII number 255, and I can not download any file containing this letter. When TC see such file it just say "Error downloading file!" and suggest to press only OK button

So, I want to download all files, I start background transfer, and after hour of working TC just says "Error downloading file!" and breaks all the process! AAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!! Now I need to find the file which cause error and manually resume the transfer after it.

Want TC ask me what to do - try to download again or skip this file!

Post by *Hacker » 2012-03-18, 13:18 UTC

speller2,
Perhaps you are trying to download files in Automatic or Text mode instead of Binary?

Roman

Post by *petermad » 2012-03-18, 15:46 UTC

2speller2

Have you tried a different setting for the encoding of downloded file names.

You find it under Advanced, in the dialog where you edit your FTP-connection (Ctrl+F -> Edit -> Advanced -> Encoding of file names:).

Maybe setting this option to "Cyrillic Windows (1251)" will help.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-03-18, 16:02 UTC

Character 255 is seen as an escape sequence character by some FTP servers (according to the Telnet specification), but not by all...

speller2 · Post by *speller2 » 2012-03-19, 01:10 UTC

2Hacker
Dont sure. Will check it.

2petermad
File names are shown and copied correctly. The problem is in #255 character.

2ghisler(Author)
Yes, it is. But, can you teach TC to skip copying files which can not be copied by some reasons? When I try to copy single file with #255 in its name, TC make some number of tries (see it in the log). Can it ask what to do next, abort operation or skip and resume?

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-03-19, 13:43 UTC

Try the background transfer manager (F5-F2), it should skip these files and show an error at the end only.

speller2 · Post by *speller2 » 2012-03-19, 23:02 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Try the background transfer manager (F5-F2), it should skip these files and show an error at the end only.

I did it in background, but TC show error and breaks process. This is why I created this topic )

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-03-22, 14:22 UTC

Strange - btw, I just tried it with our FTP server,and it has no problems with the value 255 in names. Is there any way to get a test account with such a file name on your server?