Houston we have a problem!

[HairyPotter]

Hi, I discovered what I think is at least a weird behavior of Yummy FTP.

A fool on my job's network succeeded in renaming by mistake a file on a remote server using two linefeed characters (\r\r) as part of the file name. He renamed the file from

file.php

to something like

file\r\r.php

I tried to delete the file using Yummy but Yummy was completely weird. Look at the attached picture to see how Yummy showed the file as \0 ?   According to yummy this file belonged to "php"....

[spacific]

Try renaming the file.  This may not work as the server OS may not recognize the rename command with the corrupted filename.  The other way to do it is from the "file manager" part of your server web administration software -- e.g. cpanel -- that way will usually work.

[JD]

This problem is a limitation of the FTP protocol itself, not Yummy FTP.  The FTP protocol is text based and uses carriage returns and line feeds to indicate the end of a command. If a file name has either of these characters then the whole thing falls apart.

The only way to fix this is either directly on the server itself - the server administrator might need to that for you - or via your file manager control panel, as spacific has suggested (thanks, btw!).