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HI Martin,

I read thru the documentation you provided; and added the hostkey to my script; but it still did not work. I have enabled the log as well.

Here is what I did:

• I accessed the site from WinSCP GUI last night, connected to the remote SFTP server, clicked "Download" and downloaded the file that I needed. The log was created from this action. I read thru the log, and saw the hostkey fingerprint info. So I used it to add to my script.
  
  
• I have already added a Task in Windows Task Scheduler to trigger this script at 3am everyday. I changed the script and added the hostkey last night, and this morning I checked - in Task Scheduler, it shows that the task was started at 3am, action started then completed; but when I looked at the destination folder, no new file was downloaded, also, there was no new log created from this morning either; as if the WinSCP session was never started this morning.
  

Here is the script I tried:

Note: for the command line with open, I have also tried the following format, but neither worked:

Also, I went to WinSCP, have it generated the session url for me, which is in this format -but it did not work either:

So at this point, I have read your support docs, tried everything I can think of, but it still does not work, and there is no log – as if the WinSCP session never got started.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks!

Your post does not really contain much information.
We need at least any error you are getting or better a log file.
See also https://winscp.net/eng/docs/troubleshooting#scripting

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Though in general your script is missing a hostkey. The script might have worked on the old machine, because the host key was cached there. We do not recommend to rely on a cached host keys for this very reason.
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting#hostkey and
Why WinSCP does not work in a new environment (operating system, machine, user account, network), when it works for me in a different environment already?

Hi ,

I've been using WinSCP on an older computer since 2017, and it has been working great. Now we have a new computer running Windows 11, and I just downloaded the latest version of WinSCP, however the script is not working – and I'm trying to access the same SFTP server, folder and download the same file. Nothing on my SFTP server side changed.

Here's the old script:

I read the WinSCP support and changed the command for open from using site to session url, but it still does not work.

Here is the new script:

Please let me know if the script is correct? I appreciate your help.