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No such file or directory - fonts 0kb? (4 posts)

• Started 14 years ago by chimmy
• Latest reply 14 years ago from Scott McGuire

• chimmy Member

  Hi there, i've been mirroring a couple computers and i've been getting an error message on a couple folders that contain fonts.

  any help would be great.

  --------------------------------------------------------

  Making data connection to 192.168.1.178 port 55570
  LIST -al
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
  total 1
  drwxr-xr-x 11 work staff 374 May 1 2003 .
  drwxr-xr-x 10 work staff 340 Feb 23 2007 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 work staff 0 Oct 8 15:11 Icon

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSanExtLigCap
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSanExtLigCapIta
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSanExtLigExp
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSanExtLigExpIta
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSanExtLigIta
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSanExtLigPla
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSans 2 ExtraLight
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 work staff 0 May 1 2003 TheSans 2 ExtraLight Expert
  226 Transfer complete.
  MDTM Icon

  550 Icon: No such file or directory.
  TYPE I
  200 Type set to I.
  SIZE Icon

  550 Icon: not a plain file.
  MDTM Icon

  550 Icon: No such file or directory.
  PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,178,217,19)
  Making data connection to 192.168.1.178 port 55571
  RETR Icon

  550 Icon: No such file or directory.
  Unsuccessful transfer of Icon
  (0/0 bytes, 0 bytes/sec, 0:00 elapsed) stopped at 3/26/09 8:28:36 AM (error: 2,-30004)
  ftp_retrieve: 2,-30004 (state == RGET_RETRIEVING)
  PWD
  257 "/Volumes/Kip/Clients/Brand 33/Kings Hawaiian/2008/10_KHB_Oct_08/green_vision_final/the_sans/TheSans 2 Extra Light" is the current directory.
  Retrieved 9 items from file list cache, stored 03/24/2009 10:42 PM
  PWD
  257 "/Volumes/Kip/Clients/Brand 33/Kings Hawaiian/2008/10_KHB_Oct_08/green_vision_final/the_sans/TheSans 2 Extra Light" is the current directory.
  PWD
  257 "/Volumes/Kip/Clients/Brand 33/Kings Hawaiian/2008/10_KHB_Oct_08/green_vision_final/the_sans/TheSans 2 Extra Light" is the current directory.
  PWD
  257 "/Volumes/Kip/Clients/Brand 33/Kings Hawaiian/2008/10_KHB_Oct_08/green_vision_final/the_sans/TheSans 2 Extra Light" is the current directory.
  PWD
  257 "/Volumes/Kip/Clients/Brand 33/Kings Hawaiian/2008/10_KHB_Oct_08/green_vision_final/the_sans/TheSans 2 Extra Light" is the current directory.
  PWD
  257 "/Volumes/Kip/Clients/Brand 33/Kings Hawaiian/2008/10_KHB_Oct_08/green_vision_final/the_sans/TheSans 2 Extra Light" is the current directory.
  QUIT
  221-
  Data traffic for this session was 0 bytes in 0 files.
  Total traffic for this session was 2994372 bytes in 2244 transfers.
  221 Thank you for using the FTP service on g5server.

  Posted 14 years ago #

• Scott McGuire Administrator

  Hi,

  I'm guessing that the server you're downloading files from also a Mac?

  It looks like the problem is that folder has a custom icon. The custom icon is stored in a file named "Icon(carriage return)" (that is, it has a carriage return at the end of it).

  Fetch is properly sending a request to the server for a file named "Icon(carriage return)", but the server seems to think Fetch is asking for a file named "Icon" (with no carriage return), and so replies that no such files exist.

  This is a problem with the server software; to be honest, FTP isn't really designed to deal with filenames that have funny characters in their names.

  Assuming the server is under your control, I recommend that you set it up to accept SFTP connections instead of FTP. Then use SFTP for your transfers. I did a test, and SFTP was able to transfer a folder with a custom icon - and thus one of the funny "Icon" files - just fine.

  If you're using the built-in server in Mac OS X, you can enable SFTP sharing by turning on "Remote Login" in the Sharing control panel.

  I hope this helps, let me know if my assumptions weren't correct.

  Thanks,

  Scott McGuire
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #

• chimmy Member

  Thanks, that looks like it working.

  Originally posted by ScottMcGuire:

  Hi,

  I'm guessing that the server you're downloading files from also a Mac?

  It looks like the problem is that folder has a custom icon. The custom icon is stored in a file named "Icon(carriage return)" (that is, it has a carriage return at the end of it).

  Fetch is properly sending a request to the server for a file named "Icon(carriage return)", but the server seems to think Fetch is asking for a file named "Icon" (with no carriage return), and so replies that no such files exist.

  This is a problem with the server software; to be honest, FTP isn't really designed to deal with filenames that have funny characters in their names.

  Assuming the server is under your control, I recommend that you set it up to accept SFTP connections instead of FTP. Then use SFTP for your transfers. I did a test, and SFTP was able to transfer a folder with a custom icon - and thus one of the funny "Icon" files - just fine.

  If you're using the built-in server in Mac OS X, you can enable SFTP sharing by turning on "Remote Login" in the Sharing control panel.

  I hope this helps, let me know if my assumptions weren't correct.

  Thanks,

  Scott McGuire
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #

• Scott McGuire Administrator

  Hi,

  You're welcome, glad to hear that helped.

  Best,

  Scott McGuire
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #