I upgraded to 4.3 today, after deleting 3.8.*
and still if I try to local a dvd or cdrom I get errors to remote with winscp,
I am using an ACER Aspire 1690

I don't recall if this was an issue on my desktop, will have to check.

So yep, this gremlin for at lease some configurations is still around.

magdalen wrote:

I've got a CD that one of the avi files barfs wtih the same error "invalid argument to date encode". the file is over 300 MB so I do'nt dare email it to you. Do you want it? Would it be useful for testing?

This should be fixed with 3.8.1. Have you tried it?

Hi Martin, first off THANK YOU for WinSCP it's amazing, it lets me use my linux server like a virtual drive wherever I go.

I've got a CD that one of the avi files barfs wtih the same error "invalid argument to date encode". the file is over 300 MB so I do'nt dare email it to you. Do you want it? Would it be useful for testing?

I just foudn this forum with a google search for the error, and so if you want the ISO or somjething you can email me at winscp_net@magdala.us (i set that alias up just now so I do'nt care if people start spamming it if they pick it up on this forum)

thanks!

Amber

Anonymous wrote:

It appears that a USB reader works to read my DVD on someone elses box. Could it be hardware specific?

I'm still investigating this. But yes, it seems to be device or driver-specific.

It appears that a USB reader works to read my DVD on someone elses box. Could it be hardware specific?

danieff wrote:

HI, I also had problems with CD rom.

When trying do copy from local cdrom to remote site, I get "Invalid argument to date encode". If I skip, the file is ignored, instead do transferring without the date attribute.

As cdrom uses another file sistem, I imagine to be a bug while getting file attributes, that expects and hdd format.

Can you send me an email, so I can send you back a debug version of WinSCP?

HI, I also had problems with CD rom.

When trying do copy from local cdrom to remote site, I get "Invalid argument to date encode". If I skip, the file is ignored, instead do transferring without the date attribute.

As cdrom uses another file sistem, I imagine to be a bug while getting file attributes, that expects and hdd format.

ekominski wrote:

Is there another email address that I should use? When I send to your email address the email is returned as undeliverable. The file I am sending is about 1.4MB.

That's strange. I've received both your emails. Thanks!

Martin,

Is there another email address that I should use? When I send to your mail address the email is returned as undeliverable. The file I am sending is about 1.4MB.

Eric

Martin,

I sent an ISO image to your mail address. I burned a CDROM from this image using Nero version 6.6.0.16 and then tried to copy a file from the CDROM using WinSCP with no success.

Thanks for your prompt reply

Eric

ekominski wrote:

If you like, I can email you an ISO image of a CDROM that exhibits the problem

Please, do! :-)

I too am having the same problem. If you like, I can email you an ISO image of a CDROM that exhibits the problem, although it seems that any CDROM will do for this purpose. My OS is Windows XP SP2 and I am using WinSCP version 3.7.6.

Also, I have verified that WinSCP version 3.3 running on Windows 2000 works fine.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Is there an image of the CD available somewhere for download?

martin wrote:

If you copy the file to HDD, can you then transfer it with WinSCP?

Yes, I can copy the data to a harddrive and then use WinSCP to copy the data. That adds an extra step that I would like to avoid if possible.
Thanks for your help,

If you copy the file to HDD, can you then transfer it with WinSCP?

Hello,
I am using WinSCP v 3.7.6 in WinXP sp2 and the remote site is a Suse Linux SLES9. I am able to login and copy data from a network drive or a local hard drive, but when I try to copy data from a CD it errors out.
The error message is:

Can't get attributes of file 'D:\sample.txt'.
Invalid argument to date encode
Abort, Retry, Skip, Skip all, <<Less

I probably have something setup wrong, but I can't seem to find out what. Data copies from everything else fine except the cdrom.

Thanks for a great tool,
PHS