Article - CS173504

Non File Synchronization enabled worker fails to publish documents with multi-byte characters in the file name, when FTP is used for the Common File-system, error: “Problem copying all files via ftp”

Modified: 24-Oct-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
  • Creo View Adapters 2.0 to 12.0

Description

  • Publishing fails for a non-filesync worker when processing documents whose filename contains double-byte (2-byte) characters (e.g., Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Korean and Japanese)
  • This only occurs when FTP is used for the shared filesystem between Windchill and a remote worker
  • Fails to publish the Office document with a Chinese file name
  • Error messages:
    • WVS Job Monitor:
Problem copying all files via ftp org.apache.commons.net.io.CopyStreamException: IOException caught while copying.
Part Processing Returned: $ERROR$ Problem copying all files via ftp

OR

Document Processing Returned: $ERROR$ Problem copying all files via ftp java.io.FileNotFoundException: 550 Could not open file for writing

OR

Document Processing Returned: $ERROR$ Problem copying all files via ftp java.io.FileNotFoundException: 550 Unknown error

 

    • Background MethodServer:
ERROR : wt.wvs.publish.FTP wcadmin - FTP change dir IOException java.io.FileNotFoundException:550 can't access file.
ERROR wt.wvs.workeragent.Worker - IOException caught while copying: org.apache.commons.net.io.CopyStreamException: IOException caught while copying


 

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