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Noobie to WinSCP - Delete after Sync help plz.

Thus far my experience with WinSCP is about 3 days.

Thanks in large part to the examples & content on this site (which are superb), I have composed the following script to synchronize the contents of a remote dir with the local dir; 
option batch on
option confirm off
open username:password@sftp.site.com
cd /remotedir
option transfer binary
synchronize local -delete
synchronize local c:\localdir /remotedir
close
exit
It would seem the files are being synchronize w/o any issue, but the contents of the remote dir are not being deleted.

Is there something I have missed in using this condition in my script?

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Re: Noobie to WinSCP - Delete after Sync help plz.

I guess you expect your script to delete whole remote directory after synchronizing. It does not do that. The -delete switch tells it to delete whatever files are not present in the opposite directory.
If you want to delete the remote directory, do it explicitly with rmdir command.

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Pritesh Davda
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Re: Noobie to WinSCP - Delete after Sync help plz.

synchronize local -delete command is not deleting files in remote folder :(

Keepuptodate is quite good solution but it runs as a service and I prefer to run job once or twice a day.

Any advise on why synchronize local -delete command is not working?

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Re: Noobie to WinSCP - Delete after Sync help plz.

Pritesh Davda wrote:

Any advise on why synchronize local -delete command is not working?
The command by definition removes file in local directory only. Please read documentation. If that does not help, come back.

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JeffDallas
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Still having trouble with deleting source files after transf

I am trying to pull files from a remote location to a local location and delete the sources files on success.

We are running this at a .bat. 
winscp.exe /console /command 
"open FTPLogin" 
"synchronize local -delete -filemask="*.zip" "
"\\target\location\"
" /sourceLocation" 
"close" 
"exit"

The files transfer just fine, but the source files remain. I think I'm missing one little thing but after digging around the forums I haven't been able to get it to work.

Thanks

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I am pretty new to scripting in general, and I did not want to create another topic when I believe what I am trying to do is very similar.

I have attempted to write a script that will synchronize a local folder with a remote folder. After the synchronization, the files in the local folder should be deleted.

Here is what I wrote: 
option confirm off
open ftpsession
synchronize remote -nopreservetime 
synchronize remote -nopermissions 
synchronize remote "C:\Users\Local\Directory" "/remote/directory"
synchronize remote -delete
exit
It is transferring the text files, but it is still giving me a permissions/preserve timestamp error for most of the runs I do. Also, none of the files in the local directory are being deleted afterwards.

I apologize for my inexperience. Any help would be appreciated.
It synchronizes, but generates a fi

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RESOLVED: Delete remote files after sync / copy

This is the solution I implemented:

In my batch file, I call WinSCP twice, invoking two different scripts.

The first script does my local sync: 
synchronize local -filemask="*.*"
Then, in my batch file, I *move* those files to a permanent location, outside of the current hierarchy.

Now I invoke the second script which does a REMOTE synch with the delete option: 
synchronize remote -delete -filemask="*.*"
Now I have all of my files with directory structure in tact, and the server has been properly cleaned.

My batch file looks something like this (simplified): 

winscp.com /console /script="synch.scr" 
 
robocopy "tempdir" "finaldir" /MOVE /E
 
winscp.com /console /script="cleanup.scr"

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how to synchronize files from local to remote and delete local files in winscp

I want to delete the files from local directory once i have synchronized with remote directory.

Here is my script, 
#Resources Can be Found here - https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting
option batch abort
option confirm off
open scp://XXX:YYY@localhost -hostkey="ZZZ"
synchronize remote -delete [local directory] [remote directory]
exit
With the above script, files are getting deleted in remote directory.

If i use the below script, then files from remote is getting synchronized to my local. 
synchronize local -delete [local directory] [remote directory]

If i switch the directory then i get an error, 
synchronize local -delete [remote directory] [local directory]

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Re: how to synchronize files from local to remote and delete local files in winscp

martin wrote:

I want to delete the files from local directory once i have synchronized with remote directory.
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_delete_synchronized_files

HI Martin,

In the link that you shared, they have given example to synchronize remote to local and delete contents of remote. But i want the other way round - synchronize local to remote and delete local. Can you also plz test on your end and help me with the correct command?

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Re: how to synchronize files from local to remote and delete local files in winscp

Anonymous wrote:

In the link that you shared, they have given example to synchronize remote to local and delete contents of remote. But i want the other way round - synchronize local to remote and delete local. Can you also plz test on your end and help me with the correct command?
Just use put -delete as the article suggests.

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Re: how to synchronize files from local to remote and delete local files in winscp

Thanks Martin, it worked. 
put -delete SOURCE DESTINATION
I was trying to use both synchronize, put and delete at the same time, that's why it was not working earlier.

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vladimir_andrei
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Delete a remote file after successful sync

Hi there,

I want to sync a local source with a remote root destination. After the files are successfully synchronized I want to delete a specific file from remote destination: lock.pid.
I have some large files for which the synchronization takes some time, so I thought I would add a file to delete after the copy is done successfully.
I have the following batch script: 

option batch abort
option confirm off
option echo off
option transfer binary
 
open sftp://user@host -privatekey="D:\folder\key.ppk" -hostkey="ssh-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
 
synchronize remote source -delete="lock.pid"
 
close

The synchronization works, but after that lock.pid still on remote server

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vladimir_andrei
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Delete a remote file after successful sync

Can you please tell me how can I proceed in this case?

Thank you in advance and have a nice day!

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