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Impossible to retrieve files from an FTP in WinSCP - Bad message

I use WinSCP 5.17 to retrieve files from an FTP, when I retrieve files from the root folder of the FTP all works, but as soon as I try to retrieve the files from the sub-folder it doesn't work.

Here is the instruction I use:

get /Clients/Folder2/Folder3/*.* F:\folder1\folder2\

and this is the error message:

Error listing directory '/Clients/Folder2/Folder3'. Bad message (badly formatted packet or protocol incompatibility). Error code: 5 Error message from server: Bad message

Thanks for your help.

Solution

  • Finally I solved the problem, I generated the script from WinSCP GUI and it works.

    open ftps://username:[email protected]/ -certificate="ee:5f:af:7c:26:6b:bb:6f:cd:86:6a:2c:03:1e:8f:ab:e7:63:fd:43" -rawsettings FollowDirectorySymlinks=1
cd /Clients/folder2/folder3
lcd "F:\folder1\folder2"
get "*.xlsx"
exit