Need to loop on error until cleared using ChilkatFTP
Using the free version of ChilkatFTP to download PDFs from server to local folder. Script genrally works fine, but after 2 or 3 files I get a run time error "Failed to get directory informatoin", failing at the line in the loop where it gets the name of the next file. Chilkat states that the free version had some bugs, and rather than fix they now offer FTP2 for $150. I'm using it for upload with no problems, but the download has this error. If I use the FTP2 Active X controler instead of FTP, it works fine. So looking for a method to trap this error, and loop back around to try again to get the file name until successful.
'****** MOVE FILES FROM A FLAT FOLDER TO A SERVER
Const strDestFolderName = "D:\PDF FLAT\" ' Where files go
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")
Set objChilkatFTP = CreateObject("ChilkatFTP.ChilkatFTP.1")
' Do while 1=1
objChilkatFTP.Hostname = "ftp.servername.com" ' Source server
objChilkatFTP.Username = "userID"
objChilkatFTP.Password = "password"
objChilkatFTP.Passive = 1 ' Passive mode
' Connect and login to the FTP server.
intSuccess = objChilkatFTP.Connect()
If (intSuccess <> 1) Then
MsgBox objChilkatFTP.LastErrorText
WScript.Quit
End If
objChilkatFTP.ListPattern = "*.pdf" ' Set file type as PDF
' Now go get files from server, then delete
n = objChilkatFTP.NumFilesAndDirs
If (n < 0) Then
MsgBox objChilkatFTP.LastErrorText
WScript.Quit
End If
If (n > 0) Then
For i = 0 To n - 1
fname = objChilkatFTP.GetFilename(i) '>> this is the line causing the error
lcl_fname = strDestFolderName & fname ' Add path to file name
' Download the file into the current working directory.
success = objChilkatFTP.GetFile(fname,lcl_fname)
If (success <> 1) Then
MsgBox objChilkatFTP.LastErrorText
WScript.Quit
End If
' Now delete the file.
success = objChilkatFTP.DeleteRemoteFile(fname)
If (success <> 1) Then
MsgBox objChilkatFTP.LastErrorText
WScript.Quit
End If
Next
End If ' Terminates when list exhausted
objChilkatFTP.Disconnect ' All done; disconnect for now
' wscript.sleep 60000 ' Restart in one minute
' Loop
ASKER
Hmmmm, Rob. Put 25 files at the server for a test. Then ran this code as-is, and it instantly deleted all of them at the server and did not download any of them!
ASKER
Rob, stability is very important. I will have as many as eight PCs running these scripts, all but two unattended. My business depends upon this, so think I'l just purchase a license to the FTP2 version and be done with it.
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Already bought a license and will slepp better this way! Thanks Ron.
Say "n" was 6, when you delete a file, "n" becomes 5 (for the total number of files available), so you'll probably get the error.
What I've done to try to get around that is to record each file name that was downloaded during the loop, then after the files have been downloaded, it goes back and deletes those files.
Regards,
Rob.
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