FAILED TO CHANGE DIRECTORY ERROR

Question

I am trying to cd to a directory that has a space in it. I have tried all of the following without success using edtFTP:
/AP\ Feedback
"/AP\ Feedback"
/AP\\ Feedback
"/AP\\ Feedback"

I can manually cd to AP Feedback using the following:

cd /AP\ Feedback

Any help would truely be appreciated...

Answer 1

Have you tried "AP Feedback"?

Answer 2

Yes - I have tried all combinations. Any other thoughts?

Answer 3

Post a snippet of a logfile which should show why it failed.

Answer 4

OS name: AIX
OS arch: ppc
OS version: 5.3

DEBUG [FTPClient] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.242 : Connecting to /216.27.91.66:21
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.468 : 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.470 : ---> USER gci_ftp
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.593 : 331 Please specify the password.
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.593 : ---> PASS ********
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.704 : 230 Login successful.
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.705 : ---> TYPE A
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.807 : 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.808 : ---> CWD /AP\ Feedback
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.910 : 550 Failed to change directory.
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:32.911 : ---> QUIT
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:33.14 : 221 Goodbye.
ERROR [GcixFtp] 5 Apr 2007 08:50:33.16 : Error: : FTP.put statement /AP\ Feedback - Failed to change directory.
com.gci.utils.ftp.GcixFtpUtilityException: FTP.put statement /AP\ Feedback - Failed to change directory.
at com.gci.utils.ftp.GcixFtpUtility.putFile(GcixFtpUtility.java:131)
at GcixFtp.main(GcixFtp.java:43)

Answer 5

I got it figured out. I was passing this as a parameter and I was trying "AP Feedback" and all the other variations. I tried with just AP Feedback (no quotes) and it worked fine. Thanks for the assistance.