How to use get directory on FTP Server and pickup specific files?

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Hi, I need to download files using ftp activities but I can only download all the files using download files activity which is time taking as there are around 2000 files. I want to download only specific files with a prefix “ABC…txt”.

is there anyway we can use get directory in ftp folder ? or any other way to pickup only specific files in version 2019 ?

Regards
Abhi

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Hi @ABHI_S,
Have you tried already UiPath.FTP.Activities pack?

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Hi there, I guess Uipath has very few activites related to FTP, I’m told to use Uipath original packages which is FTP activities. So within FTP session, I’m using download activity to download files, But I like to keep only specific ones on my local. I tried using enumerate objects, I can only read object info with file names but cannot download them while trying it with for each. Any help?

Right now I can see these

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I’m not sure if you have the right package. Please be sure that you have this one:
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This includes these activities:
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Having this you should use enumerate files to search for files and keep them in output which is DataTable type. Then using for each activity go through each row and push string from current row’s first index to Download activity.

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Can you please let me know the version you are using as I’m on 2019.10 and package version also ?

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Sorry for my mistake. I was checking this to you when I realized I’m one version down from the newest one where number of activities has been changed. My mistake. Anyway same operation is doable using Enunumerate objects activity and then Download Files inside loop.

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Enum objects only giving me , object info or file name, how can I download :confused:

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You need to build flow which will extract whole logic around how to get path to each particular file within FTP scope. It will look like this:
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Here is the example project based on random web ftp server:
TestingProject.zip (165.7 KB)

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I have a similar problem and the solution is interesting but it doesn’t work for me.
Maybe it’s because my remote repository path is this “$ STP099.DATA”

Please can you help me.

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Could you please give me more details.

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Yes, I have this post with the details

Help me :frowning:

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I responded to you in that thread.

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Hi Pablito,

i have tried your solution. The download is working, but the folderstructure was not adopted.
All Files are in the root folder, as well as in the other folders.

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Do you have a solution to fix this?

Best regards

  • David