Removing OpenVMS file-level version numbers

[dgilbert]

Update.
I found what looks like a way to force VMS version stripping on transfers to Windows. I edited the filezilla.xml file and set "StripVMSRevisions" to 1. Then I altered the security settings of this file to remove Write and Modify access. Now transfers from VMS to Windows do strip the VMS version numbers but I occasionally have to dismiss a FileZilla dialog that complains the it cannot modify filezilla.xml or create a backup of this file. That is also annoying but far less annoying than the transfers that maintain the VMS version numbers.


Hello,
I am using FileZilla 3.30.0 to connect to an OpenVMS version 8.4 server from a Windows client.
Is there a way to get this client version to strip the OpenVMS file version numbers when transferring to Windows?
I used the Site Manger and configured the target server as VMS.
I also edited the filezilla.xml file and set "StripVMSRevisions" to 1 but that had no effect and, in addition, someone keeps setting it back to 0.
Any feedback appreciated,
Thanks,
David Gilbert

[botg]

Sounds like you damaged the settings file. Make sure it's a well-formed XML document and don't change its permissions away from the default.

[markitz]

To help anyone else finding this, change the "StripVMSRevisions" setting in filezilla.xml to 1, as stated in the original post, but DO NOT have FileZilla open while you change it; FileZilla reads the settings on startup and writes them back out on close. On Windows you can find filezilla.xml at %APPDATA%\FileZilla.

[reinhardtjh]

I've been digging but haven't found it yet. Where is a filezilla.xml equivalent on macOS? and in the Linux version?

Thanks.

[boco]

~/.config/filezilla

~ is your user's Home. .config is usually hidden, so, instruct your file manager to show all files.

[reinhardtjh]

~/.config/filezilla

~ is your user's Home. .config is usually hidden, so, instruct your file manager to show all files.

That's on macOS? I do have a ~/.config directory but no filezilla file there.

But I have a ~/.filezilla. And I've verified that the change works.

Thank you!

[Stefan-Jan]

W10 => C:\Users\xxusernamexx\AppData\Roaming\filezilla\filezilla.xml

<Setting name="Strip VMS revisions">1</Setting> 0 => 1

[botg]

Please note that such functionality is not covered by the FTP specifications and might get removed in the future.