We currently have a couple FTP Pull jobs setup using VisualCron. Pulling time critical data from/for our clients. We ran into an issue, first one, on January 4th, where VisualCron did a list, returned an error, then proceeded to delete all files from the source destination without pulling the data first.

This did produce an error, however it was to late by then as the delete already happened. The job is setup to automatically delete the files upon successful pull, however this did not function as intended.

Log:
LIST
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.

226 Transfer complete.

TYPE A
200 Type set to A.

PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (205,191,176,109,22,91)

LIST
425 Can't open data connection.

DELE O_430_0000000227864661.xml
250 DELE command successful.

DELE O_430_0000000227864662.xml
250 DELE command successful.

...

DELE O_430_0000000227864675.xml
250 DELE command successful.

BTW, currently running version 6.1.8. We have had other similar issue's in the past with FTP, and have since updated to this version to help resolve some of them per Supports suggestions.

You should really upgrade as this is one of the things we have fixed (that it does not delete unless really downloaded fully).

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Do you have the version number it was corrected in, so I can get the update log info. My client is asking, thus I have a business case to move this to a high priority for upgrade.

thanks.

I don't. Could not see it in the change log but looking at the current code I cannot see how it is possible that it could be deleted without downloading it. The problem with version 6.x is that it does not provide so much debug code besides the FTP output so it is hard to tell why here.

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