# Advanced-ftp does not work when feeding filename and localFilename
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416
**Category:** General
**Created:** [30 March 2021 18:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416 "2021-03-30T18:47:21Z")
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### Author:  [@KevinPamu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/KevinPamu)
#### Post date: [30 March 2021 18:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416/1 "2021-03-30T18:47:21Z")
Hi,
I have a flow where the advanced-ftp node works when I put in the filename and localFilename in the node.
however, I leave them blank and feed the filename and localFilename using a function node, it doesn't seem to work. I could be missing something very simple here but here is my function
`var local = msg.payload; var remote = "/site/invoices/"+msg.payload; var localn = "C:\\PosPlus\\Invoices\\Working\\"+local; msg.filename = remote; msg.localFilename = localn; return msg;`
Error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
But when I copy the value of the msg.filename and msg.localFilename to the node itself it works.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance, Let me know if you need more information.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [30 March 2021 19:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416/2 "2021-03-30T19:41:32Z")
Feed that into a debug node set to show Complete Message and check everything looks right. I suggest you use forward slashes rather that backslash, then you don't have to worry about escaping them. Forward slashes work fine in Windows.
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### Author:  [@KevinPamu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/KevinPamu)
#### Post date: [30 March 2021 19:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416/3 "2021-03-30T19:45:52Z")
`{"payload":"","topic":"","filename":"/site/invoices/Produce_Invoice_003_03192021_125956.csv\r","parts":{"index":2,"ch":"\n","type":"string","id":"d2887f53.ef9f"},"_msgid":"e0ff6a24.f0f548","localFilename":"C:/PosPlus/Invoices/Working/Produce_Invoice_003_03192021_125956.csv\r"}`
That's the complete message object. I see the /r in there do you think that's the problem?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [30 March 2021 19:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416/4 "2021-03-30T19:59:44Z")
> [@KevinPamu](#):
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> I see the /r in there do you think that's the problem
Quite possibly. If you put
`msg.payload = msg.payload.trim()`
at the start then I think that will remove those. Check in the debug node to see. Or do that wherever you create msg.payload earlier in the flow.
Whenever you have a problem with a node the first thing to do is to look at what you are sending it and make sure it looks right.
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### Author:  [@KevinPamu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/KevinPamu)
#### Post date: [30 March 2021 20:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416/5 "2021-03-30T20:02:49Z")
> [@Colin](#):
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> msg.payload = msg.payload.trim()
That did it!! Thank you Colin!!
Will pay closer attention next time. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [13 April 2021 20:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/advanced-ftp-does-not-work-when-feeding-filename-and-localfilename/43416/6 "2021-04-13T20:02:53Z")
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