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503 RNFR command not understood

I'm using a (cheap branded) local media station as an FTP server and I'm using FIleZilla to transfer files to it. When I try to move or rename a file located on the media station, I'm getting

Command:    RNFR [filename]
Response:   503 Command not understood.

I don't know whether this is because of an old or corrupted FTP version (it's a device older than 5 years and I think there are no updates available). Is there an alternative to perform FTP rename or move commands?

Solution

  • Is there an alternative to perform FTP rename or move commands?

    If you have telnet or SSH access to the machine you could do the renaming their. If not you might try to use the FTP SITE command with "mv from-name to-name". But I doubt that the server will support this if it does not even support the standard way of FTP to rename files.

    Apart from that the only alternative is probably to download the file, remove it on the server and upload it again with a different name.