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Does the FTP Adapter support deletions?

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I cant find anything in the documentation - in devnet ive read that its not supported, when I try an example it doesnt error out but it doesnt delete the files from the FTP site?

LIB: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 DEPLOYING - [Y:\default\main\OHE\ArgosyUniversity\WORKAREA\Content] to [\cmstest-qa]
LIB: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 Filelist=[D:\Interwoven\OpenDeployNG\FileLists\Std-Deletion-Workflow-1257188072585.txt]
LIB: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 Delete [.\default_borked.aspx] [reason file_list] -- OK
ENG: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 EST GMT-05:00 Thread-42 After PRECOMMIT, res=0

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Adam Stoller

I cant find anything in the documentation - in devnet ive read that its not supported, when I try an example it doesnt error out but it doesnt delete the files from the FTP site?

LIB: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 DEPLOYING - [Y:\default\main\OHE\ArgosyUniversity\WORKAREA\Content] to [\cmstest-qa]
LIB: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 Filelist=[D:\Interwoven\OpenDeployNG\FileLists\Std-Deletion-Workflow-1257188072585.txt]
LIB: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 Delete [.\default_borked.aspx] [reason file_list] -- OK
ENG: 2009-11-02 13:55:22 EST GMT-05:00 Thread-42 After PRECOMMIT, res=0

I've never used the FTP Adaptor, so this is not necessarily 100% accurate, but since FTP itself does not (to the best of my recollection) support deletions, I don't think the Adaptor would do so either. With FTP sites, one usually has to handle deletions from the server-side file-system interface (e.g.: cd /ftp/pub/mumble/fratz; rm -f foo.html)

ISCBorisB

I've never used the FTP Adaptor, so this is not necessarily 100% accurate, but since FTP itself does not (to the best of my recollection) support deletions, I don't think the Adaptor would do so either. With FTP sites, one usually has to handle deletions from the server-side file-system interface (e.g.: cd /ftp/pub/mumble/fratz; rm -f foo.html)

FTP as a Protocol does include a "delete" Command ( Format: delete [remote File] ).
Although particular implementations differ it is normally present

Adam Stoller

FTP as a Protocol does include a "delete" Command ( Format: delete [remote File] ).
Although particular implementations differ it is normally present

Hmm - perhaps it's just because I never actually ran an FTP site that I didn't think to look it up before responding. Thanks for the correction. Whether or not this helps with regard to the OD FTP Adaptor is still an open question, and failing to get a response from anyone here who's actually used it before - I'd suggest contacting Support to get an official response.

Migrateduser

correct - the question pertains to the Interwoven provided FTP adapter, which has sparse documentation (at best). one of our clients cant afford an OD license, and want to use the FTP adapter but it appears to provide no way to delete content from their ftp sites...i will contact support for a definite yes/no

here is the KB article w/ the ftp adapter "documentation"

Using the OpenDeploy FTP Adapter
Knowledge Base Article: 55975
Type: Tech Note

http://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=55975

Adam Stoller

one of our clients cant afford an OD license, and want to use the FTP adapter but it appears to provide no way to delete content from their ftp sites...i will contact support for a definite yes/no

Is this a Windows or Unix based environment?

Although I like OD (and obviously, this is an IWOV forum) there are alternative tools...

Migrateduser

actually, after a lot of testing (and grief) the OD FTP adapter DOES support deletions, however, there is a major caveat. the files must be deployed via the ftp adapter to be deleted via the ftp adapter. it will not delete files that exist on a site without being sent there via OD. we are guessing this is due to the fact the FTP adapter must deploy to a local folder structure first before actually ftping the files.

per the "documentation" > "There have been common mis-understandings about the the OpenDeploy FTP adapter allowing for content to be FTP’d to target servers directly. This is NOT the case. The OpenDeploy Base Server deploys the content using the OpenDeploy protocol to a Receiver Server (this could be to the same Base Server too). This creates the file list for the FTP adapter."

hopefully this can help someone else Smiley Happy