550 file unavailable error with FtpWebRequest class file upload. Works fine in FileZilla

Question

I\'m searched and found other questions on this but none have solved my issues. I\'m trying to upload a file via FTP using sample MSDN code. I get the The remote server retu

Answer 1

I had this problem just recently. It just popped on code that I had been using for years. It turned out that I had been working with a number of ftp sites and was sending the same files to all these ftp sites. Well, when I went to some ftp sites, I was left at root, but at others, i was immediately put on a subdirectory. Before this recent change I could use request stream and put the file directly on the subdirectly where I was put. As of last week I needed to fully qualify the path.

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