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Alfresco download UTF-8 using FTP

framtk — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:44:59 GMT

Hi,I have installed alfresco 5.1 with the installer on a windows machine running server 2012 r2.I use FTP (filezilla) to upload and download folders that exceed the 2GB limit imposed on the zip compression but the transfer fails for files that contain UTF-8 characters.The strange thing is that if i

Re: Alfresco download UTF-8 using FTP

mrks_js1 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:56:26 GMT

you mean the encoding of the files that fail is UTF-8 and you can reproduce the error?

does the path to the file contain spaces? try to give more detail on what works, and what does not work.

Re: Alfresco download UTF-8 using FTP

framtk — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:12:28 GMT

Some of the paths that work are with spaces so i don't think that's the problem. In the alfresco repository i have a folder named °üäöèéä? with inside it a file named °üäöèéä?.pdf

Using FTP i can upload and download that folder without any problems. Now i in the repository i also have a folder structure with let's say 10 folders named A,B,C,D and so on, folder A contains folder B that contains folder C and so on.

At the end of the tree i have a folder named something like "1° floor" with a file named "1° floor scheme.pdf" inside, when i try to download the folder A with FTP i get the "path not valid" message. Removing the ° from the folder fixes the problem and i can download the folder A

Re: Alfresco download UTF-8 using FTP

mrks_js1 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:20:20 GMT

it might be, that the path of the document will stay "1° floor" even if you have successfully renamed the node via share/webdav. you can see the "real" path when checking the node via node browser. try to boil down if the issue is really not about the spaces, i think i have seen some similar issue lately. also try to search the here for ftp related topics.