I had a typo in the path I was trying to have rclone sync to, such that the archive slug was not in the expected format.
The error I saw from rclone was generic:
rclone copy ~/DPhotos "permanent-prod:/archives/asdf(0974-0000)/My Files/test/DPhotos" --progress --fast-list --links --inplace --size-only --sftp-set-modtime=false --exclude '.DS_Store'
2025/05/16 10:21:37 Failed to create file system for "permanent-prod:/archives/asdf(0974-0000)/My Files/test/DPhotos": stat failed: sftp: "An error occurred when attempting to load this path from Permanent.org." (SSH_FX_FAILURE)
But in the logs I saw something more specific:
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: 5/16/2025, 2:21:37 PM debug: The specified path did not contain an archive slug
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: Error: The specified path did not contain an archive slug
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at getArchiveSlugFromPath (/data/www/sftp-service/build/utils/getArchiveSlugFromPath.js:11:11)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at PermanentFileSystem.loadArchiveIdFromPath (/data/www/sftp-service/build/classes/PermanentFileSystem.js:352:59)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at PermanentFileSystem.findFolderInParentDirectory (/data/www/sftp-service/build/classes/PermanentFileSystem.js:385:34)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at PermanentFileSystem.loadFolder (/data/www/sftp-service/build/classes/PermanentFileSystem.js:418:37)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at PermanentFileSystem.getFileSystemObjectType (/data/www/sftp-service/build/classes/PermanentFileSystem.js:58:37)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at PermanentFileSystem.getFileSystemObjectAttributes (/data/www/sftp-service/build/classes/PermanentFileSystem.js:83:33)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at SftpSessionHandler.genericStatHandler (/data/www/sftp-service/build/classes/SftpSessionHandler.js:827:25)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at SftpSessionHandler.statHandler (/data/www/sftp-service/build/classes/SftpSessionHandler.js:571:10)
May 16 14:21:37 sftp-prod node[29803]: at SFTP.emit (node:events:517:28)
That more specific error is more useful and actionable (the slug isn't there, sounds like a typo!), and that's what we should send the user!
I had a typo in the path I was trying to have rclone sync to, such that the archive slug was not in the expected format.
The error I saw from rclone was generic:
But in the logs I saw something more specific:
That more specific error is more useful and actionable (the slug isn't there, sounds like a typo!), and that's what we should send the user!