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Fetch Error "Unknown Format" (7 posts)

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  • Started 20 years ago by Lee Stewart
  • Latest reply 20 years ago from Jim Matthews
  • Lee Stewart Member

    Wehn downloading from an FTP site that's running FileZilla, I get an error "Unknown Format". It looks like the Unix filename string has the permission flags and such as part of the string that's passed to Fetch. This works fine for all my other FTP clients, is there something I need to configure with Fetch? Or maybe with the server?

    tia

    Posted 20 years ago #

  • Jim Matthews Administrator

    Could you post the contents of the Fetch Transcript window after you get the error?

    Thanks,

    Jim Matthews
    Fetch Softworks

    Posted 20 years ago #

  • Lee Stewart Member

    200 Port command successful
    RETR -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 9373707 Oct 08 17:30 Also
    Featuring.mov
    550 File not found
    ftp_retrieve: -30000 (state == RGET_RETRIEVING)
    PWD
    257 "/" is current directory.
    TYPE A
    200 Type set to A
    PORT 192,168,0,2,30,226
    200 Port command successful
    LIST
    150 Opening data channel for directory list.
    -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 17212242 Oct 06 16:12 06 Editor
    Graphics.mov
    -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 27829156 Oct 08 17:27 11 Sponsors.mov
    -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 25152138 Oct 08 17:33 Additional Vocals.mov
    -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 9373707 Oct 08 17:30 Also Featuring.mov
    -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 16068450 Oct 06 15:57 Celtics.mov
    -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 10770764 Oct 08 17:35 Creative Director.mov
    -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 10236012 Oct 08 17:38 Executive
    Producer.mov
    drwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 0 Oct 08 17:23 old stuff
    226 Transfer OK

    Posted 20 years ago #

  • Lee Stewart Member

    It seems that Fetch is receiving the directory listings, but not parsing the strings to ignore the file attributes. You can see the first RETR command has the full listing of the file included...

    Posted 20 years ago #

  • Jim Matthews Administrator

    Fetch isn't parsing the file list entries because the permission codes are non-standard; they start -xw but should start -rw.

    If you choose "Refresh File List" from the Directories menu does that fix the file list?

    Thanks,

    Jim Matthews
    Fetch Softworks

    Posted 20 years ago #

  • Lee Stewart Member

    Refreshing the file list sometimes works, but it takes a while to get it to read the names.

    Posted 20 years ago #

  • Jim Matthews Administrator

    Thanks for reporting this problem; we'll see about fixing it in the next release.

    Thanks,

    Jim Matthews
    Fetch Softworks

    Posted 20 years ago #

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