michaa wrote:
OK, now I understand, but I was confused because WinSCP's behaviour is different from moving (physically) files localy with the explorer, where you do not need to copy and delete.
That's not about WinSCP, that's about operating system. While Windows function to move files allows moving even between filesystems, the same function of your SFTP server does not allow this.
As written in the documentation:
Note that most servers does not allow moving files across different file systems
That does not mean that no servers allow it. For example both Windows SFTP servers I use for testing also allow moving files across file systems. So again, this is not different behaviour of WinSCP!
And why the non informative error message?
Answered in
FAQ.
May be you could improve this operations (copy, new session, delete) to one single operation witch handles the rest in the background?
But I cannot know that the server does not allow the move between filesystem by itself.
There should be a "Verlaufsbalken", do not know the right word. "Verlaufsbalken" means the growing blue line witch represents the amount of data being transferred. The little window appears, but the blue line does not.
It is there. But if you copy/move one file only, it can hardly show anything, as it is once step process. It is useful only if you move/copy multiple files.