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Help Yourself

First, try to troubleshoot your issue yourself.

How to Effectively Report Bug or Ask for Support

When posting your request for support or reporting bug, please include as much of the following information as you know. If you do not know some of these information or if you suppose that some are irrelevant for the issue, please mention that as well.

Register on the forum before you post. I may be able to deal with your issue only after some time, so I would appreciate if I have a contact to you.

Example of Bug Report

Subject: Open session in new window

While session is opened and the main window is shown, hold Shift and click on a saved session (in Session > Saved Sessions menu) in subfolder in order to open the session in new window. It does not work. Instead error message pops up saying: “Host does not exist”.

Using WinSCP 4.1.4 with “Commander” interface on Windows XP SP3. It happens for any stored session in subfolder, regardless of protocol or server. So I’m not posting session log file as it seems irrelevant.

Example of Support Request for Scripting

Subject: Trouble setting server timeout via command line

I have a client with a slow FTP server, it takes 25 seconds or so to connect. Whenever I attempt to add the -timeout=xxx switch to the end of my open command, WinSCP just bails out. No session log file is even created. If I remove the -timeout switch, it connects.

Here is the command line:
winscp.exe /console /script=test.txt /log=log.txt

Here is the script:
option batch on
option confirm off
open user:pass@site -timeout=60
option transfer binary
get *05152008*
close
exit

After running the script I get following in console:
Too many parameters for command ‘open’.

Using WinSCP 4.0.7 on Windows 2000.

1) Even better would be if you can try to install all intermediate versions (if any) to find exact version of WinSCP that introduced the problem.
 
  reporting.txt · Last modified: 7 May 2009 by prikryl
 

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