weird ftp problem

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:50 pm

So if you're organizing file names using excel. Don't copy and paste the text directly to the file, if you intend to send it to your ftp server. My server kicked me out and gave back an error. After getting really upset I finally figured out why it was doing that. Hope this helps someone.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:23 am

Isaac wrote:So if you're organizing file names using excel. Don't copy and paste the text directly to the file, if you intend to send it to your ftp server. My server kicked me out and gave back an error. After getting really upset I finally figured out why it was doing that. Hope this helps someone.

So what was it doing? Was it some problem with the text encoding in excel?

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:27 am

Sorry, I should have said that. Yes. Even though it's \"plain text\" to excel, it's apparently a bit more in the eyes of unix.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:37 am

Actually it could have been the FTP client you were using rather than the server (although if either one lacked proper international support you would get similar results).

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:42 am

I did try the command line ftp client and received the same error. But it's possible that both clients had the same encoding support problem.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:12 pm

make sure your ftp client is set to binary before sending anything.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:27 pm

It should be by default but I'll check.

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