`gcloud compute copy-files`: permission denied when copying files

Question

I\'m having a hard time copying files over to my Google Compute Engine. I am using an Ubuntu server on Google Compute Engine.

I\'m doing this from my OS X terminal a

Answer 1

UPDATE

gcloud compute copy-files is deprecated.

Use instead:

$ gcloud compute scp example-instance:~/REMOTE-DIR ~/LOCAL-DIR \ --zone us-central1-a

More info: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/scp