Can't Download FTP File

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Can't Download FTP File

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

Sorry I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I'm getting this error when I try to download a file

Receive-FTPFile : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'RemoteFile'. Cannot convert the "/scdeploy/cnr.msi" value of type "System.String" to type
"FluentFTP.FtpListItem[]"

Answer 1 · 2022-01-05T20:05:05.000Z

how are you using it?

Answer 2 · 2022-01-05T21:10:39.000Z

I was putting /scdeploy/cnr.msi directly into the -remotefile flag. Apparently that doesn't work?

Using the examples on that website I was able to use the variable to search the directory for the filename cnr.msi and the plug that into the -remotefile instead which worked. So I have what I need. not sure why the direct ftp filepath doesn't work though.

Answer 3 · 2022-01-05T21:16:51.000Z

There are two parameter sets. One for the native object type is [FluentFTP.FtpListItem] with parameter RemoteFile which allows you to download files using the way you just did.

Alternatively, you can use RemotePath which downloads the file based on a string. Maybe this could be improved in future with internal object type detection. Something for future updates.