Hi guys, I have a question or better said problem with the FTP server of the PLC. If I delete a text file on the server and then copy a text file with the same name but a shorter length to the server, the content that was longer in the first file is copied into the second file on the server. It is …

Hi, only as information for others maybe reading this thread in future: if working with file devices on a FTP server, a file is transferred from / to the FTP server and is edited in the local memory of the client, since the server does not have the capability to edit a file directly at the remote …

Hi Philipp, I attempted to reproduce this issue on a C80 with the same AR version and Filezilla, but could not see the behavior you were getting. Could you go into a little more detail about the exact order of operations you performed to get to the result you did? My own order of operations was a…

Hello, thank you for your time. I have done further tests today and can say that the error is not directly on the FTP server, but generally has something to do with the file read access of the PLC. With a Windows fileshare there has also a problem occurred during deleting the file after it was open…

Hi Philipp , what is status of your topic, can you mark the reply that helped you the most?

info from @Philipp.Oberhuber : At first we forgot to call the FileClose block every time we accessed a file, but since we’ve been doing it correctly the error hasn’t occurred anymore. So far it seems to be working, although I have to say that this behavior shouldn’t have happened due to a missing Fi…

Ok, that explains the behavior pretty well. It looked as if the original file was still saved somewhere.

FTP server merges text file

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FTP server merges text file

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