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Asked: 2026-06-06T17:09:27+00:00

I’ve been trying to finish up a web scraper for a website of mine

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I’ve been trying to finish up a web scraper for a website of mine and have hit a stumbling block on the folder creation for image storage

My code looks like this:

//ftpUser and ftpPass are set at the head of the class

FtpWebRequest lrgRequest = (FtpWebRequest) FtpWebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.mysite.com/httpdocs/images/large/imgFolder");
lrgRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpUser, ftpPass);
lrgRequest.KeepAlive = false;
lrgRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.MakeDirectory;
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse) lrgRequest.GetResponse();
Console.WriteLine(response);

When i run this code it gets to the response and throws the error 550 saying the folder isn’t found

I’ve compared my approach to a number of examples and by the standard approach it should work. The ftp address is valid and has been checked and i’m wondering is there an issue with my server that is stopping this or is my C# causing the problem
If anyone needs any more info please just say

As always any help is greatly appreciated

Regards
Barry

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  1. Editorial Team

    Definition of FTP 550:

    Requested action not taken. File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no
    access).

    I’d check you have the appropriate permissions (or you app does) and verfiy that the file does indeed exist.

    Since you are getting a response code, I doubt your code above is the cause of the problem. However you could always check the AuthenticationLevel and ImpersonationLevel to see if these provide any useful information.

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