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[quote="MaJaeg"]Hi there. I'm trying to use WinSCP to get some data off my QNAP NAS, and have been encountering the following error whenever I try and view a directory with large files in it:

[color=red][b]Error Listing Directory '/share/MD0_DATA/Disk Volume/Backups'[/b]
Unexpected directory listing line '-rw -rw -rw [filename/details][/color]

I searched through a number of other threads and found some other users with the same problem (who like me cannot use the SFTP protocol which I understand solves my problem, and instead can only use SCP, a restriction of the NAS). Example - https://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5749. A solution was devised and documented as per this page: https://winscp.net/tracker/142

And here's where I'm having problems. On that page linked above, it says:
[code]to force inserting a space at given place, one can specify following custom listing command:
ls -la | sed "s/^.\{28\}/& /"[/code]

So in the interface I press Ctrl-T to bring up the Console and enter the code exactly - [color=red]ls -la | sed "s/^.\{28\}/& /"[/color]. In the black space below a full listing of all of the files appears, which is great, I know they're there. However the right-hand panel does not populate with the list of files, and when I close the Console and go to find the files to copy to my PC, the error message appears again. I just wanted to check that as a first time user of WinSCP, I'm not doing anything stupid or missing something obvious? Many thanks.[/quote]

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martin

Re: Unexpected directory listing - documented fix is not working

2011-12-23

Please post a full log file showing the problem.

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MaJaeg

Unexpected directory listing - documented fix is not working

2011-12-23 07:12

Hi there. I'm trying to use WinSCP to get some data off my QNAP NAS, and have been encountering the following error whenever I try and view a directory with large files in it:

Error Listing Directory '/share/MD0_DATA/Disk Volume/Backups'
Unexpected directory listing line '-rw -rw -rw [filename/details]

I searched through a number of other threads and found some other users with the same problem (who like me cannot use the SFTP protocol which I understand solves my problem, and instead can only use SCP, a restriction of the NAS). Example - https://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5749. A solution was devised and documented as per this page: https://winscp.net/tracker/142

And here's where I'm having problems. On that page linked above, it says:

to force inserting a space at given place, one can specify following custom listing command:

ls -la | sed "s/^.\{28\}/& /"

So in the interface I press Ctrl-T to bring up the Console and enter the code exactly - ls -la | sed "s/^.\{28\}/& /". In the black space below a full listing of all of the files appears, which is great, I know they're there. However the right-hand panel does not populate with the list of files, and when I close the Console and go to find the files to copy to my PC, the error message appears again. I just wanted to check that as a first time user of WinSCP, I'm not doing anything stupid or missing something obvious? Many thanks.

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