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Access is denied on GetFile

Aug 30 '17 at 11:01

"Access is Denied" error occurs when attempting to download a file from a FTP site. Connection to the site is successful. What is denied? The file on the ftp or the folder where the file is to be downloaded?

If it's a permissions issue, then why is connecting to the site successful?

Code: Dim extractPath As String = "xxx"

    If Not Directory.Exists(extractPath) Then
        Directory.CreateDirectory(extractPath)
    End If

    Dim ftp As New Chilkat.Ftp2

    Dim success As Boolean
    success = ftp.UnlockComponent("cccc")

    If (success <> True) Then
        FTPFailure(ftp.LastErrorText, String.Empty)
    Else
        ftp.Hostname = "xxx"
        ftp.Username = "yyy"
        ftp.Password = "zzz"

        '  Connect and login to the FTP server.
        success = ftp.Connect()
        If (success <> True) Then
            FTPFailure(ftp.LastErrorText, String.Empty)
            Exit Sub
        End If

        '  Change to the remote directory where the file will be uploaded.
        success = ftp.ChangeRemoteDir("/")
        If (success <> True) Then
            FTPFailure(ftp.LastErrorText, String.Empty)
            Exit Sub
        End If

        '  Download file to extractPath
        'SUCCESS RETURNS FALSE HERE.
        success = ftp.GetFile("aaa-bbb.png", extractPath)
        If (success <> True) Then
            FTPFailure(ftp.LastErrorText, String.Empty)
            Exit Sub
        End If
    End If

The folder is accessible on this computer thru windows explorer. Thanks for any help or advice.

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Answer

Sorry for my late response. Here is lastErrorText:

ChilkatLog:
GetFile:
DllDate: Aug 26 2015
ChilkatVersion: 9.5.0.52
UnlockPrefix: ISSVCCFTP
Username: aaa:bbb
Architecture: Little Endian; 32-bit
Language: .NET 4.0
VerboseLogging: 1
ProgressMonitoring:
enabled: yes
heartbeatMs: 0
sendBufferSize: 65536
--ProgressMonitoring
downloadToFile:
localFilename: C:\xxx\Images\unzipped
Replacing existing local file
openForReadWriteWin32:
WindowsError: Access is denied.
WindowsErrorCode: 0x5
win32CreateFileAnsi failed.
localFilePath: C:\xxx\Images\unzipped
currentWorkingDirectory: C:\ddd\eee\fff\bin\Debug
localWindowsFilePath: C:\xxx\Images\unzipped
--openForReadWriteWin32
--downloadToFile
Failed.
--GetFile
--ChilkatLog

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Answer

Is this a permissions issue? I've tried other ftp sites and have the same problem. However, I can upload to any site. I cannot download from any site.

I'm not sure what to tell my IT administrator what I need to be able to download. I need permissions....to what?

Thanks

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Answer

This is a local file creation error! "win32CreateFileAnsi failed."  
does the full path "C:\xxx\Images\unzipped" Exist?  
shouldn't there be a trailing "\"  
can your program create a "text" file in the above folder with out Chilkat, Using native code?  
try this code  
dim FF as long  
Open "C:\xxx\Images\unzipped\TEST.TXT" For Output Lock write As FF   ' Note Trailing backslash in path  
Write #FF, "This is just a dummy test file."  
close FF

if that code creates the test.txt file without error then it's the "\"   
if you get a permission error then you don't have the right to create/write data to that folder.  
and the error/problem is not a CHILKAT error  

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Answer

I just noticed in your LastErrorText that the localfilename has no filename part
"localFilename: C:/xxx/Images/unzipped"
also the forum understandably does not like backslashes.
whats the value of extractpath just before you call getfile?

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Answer

I started that last post and walked away and you posted.... glad you figured it out.