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Move to FileSystem Smart Service - Invalid File Path

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July 27, 2021
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I am trying to user Move to FileSystem smart service to move files from a network drive to an Appian folder. The process keeps on failing at the Move to Collab node. I am seeing the below error in application server log

Caused by: com.appiancorp.suiteapi.process.exceptions.SmartServiceException: java.lang.Exception: Invalid File Path: \\\\RmsStgIntWeb1\\Section15Attachments\\test1.txt

This is a shared folder on a network server. I tried giving my local folder path, another mounted shared srive path, but each time getting the same Invalid Path error. What am I doing wrong here?

Would really appreciate if someone is using this smart service and can help me out. Thanks in advance.

Subhashre

mikes0011

Brainy

Please share the exact configuration (or at least a representative example) of the path entry for the smart service node. Others here might recognize a syntactic error in your configuration for example, but I doubt anyone would be able to identify such based just on the error message you posted already.

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subhashreel0001Author

Here are the configuration details

Copy Only If Updated: True

Destination: "Subhashree Test Docs" (It's a folder)

Path: "\\\\RmsStgIntWeb1\\Section15Attachments\\test1.txt" (RmsStgIntWeb1 is a windows server)

Remove After Copy: False

mikes0011

Brainy

Why are your path backslashes all doubled? Was there some indication in the plug-in setup documentation that says this is required? What happens if you try removing the duplicated backslashes? i.e. "\\RmsStgIntWeb1\Section15Attachments\test1.txt", which would be closer to the way a normal valid network path is written.

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subhashreel0001Author

Hi Mike,

I had tried with \\RmsStgIntWeb1\Section15Attachments\test1.txt and got the same invalid path error. Then saw a post in community where the person had given duplicate slashes and so I tried that too. Here is the post

https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/plug-ins/6030/using-appian-collab-filesystem-utilities-using-the-function-move-to-collab-th/23388#23388

csteward

Is this a one-time move or a recurring process? I've only used this service a few times which have always been for one-time import of legacy data associated with an app we're transitioning to Appian. In those situations we first imported the files to our server, then utilized a path such as "E:\files\library1\file.txt", bypassing the share mount.

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subhashreel0001Author

Hi Chris,

we need this feature as a recurring process. I have even tried my source path as a file in my local folder. But still it would give me "Invalid File Path" exception.

path: "C:\Dev\1.png"

Would it be possible for you to share your node configuration?