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I’ve found that sometimes FTP connections don’t interpret the file paths the same when logging on with an FTP UI client vs. when logging on with a service application like SnapLogic. The UI client might place you into the logged-in account’s home directory where /readme.txt might work while the application might require a full start-from-root path. So you might look at modifying the path to sftp://server name/repository path/login name/readme.txt or something similar.
- Joy8 years agoNew Contributor II
Have you found a way to search the account’s home directory without hard coding that portion of the path?
- stephenknilans8 years agoContributor
Joy,
One way you can you this on windows is to pretend that the directory in the home directory is the ROOT of what you want, and prefix it with:
%LOCALAPPDATA%....
SO, if you were a user with a home directory of \users\joy and wanted to save things in JUNK, just use:
%LOCALAPPDATA%....\JUNK
If HENRY had a directory \users\HENRY, the directory would be \users\HENRY\JUNK. Just realize that this is based on the user that actually STARTED the process.
There are supposedly simpler ways, but this was the first one I found that worked for ME.
- Joy8 years agoNew Contributor II
Thanks for that info Stephen. I am using a Linux environment so I cannot port that solution directly. Similar options available in Linux didn’t worked for me due to the sftp and server prefix needed on the Dir/File snaps (the snaps won’t accept the user info as part of the search URL).