2950 - %Error opening flash:

Question

Hello,
Trying to copy the booted IOS image to my TFTP server but for some odd reason it’s failing to locate the file, even though you can see it in the flash directory:
SWT001#show flash:
Directory of flash:/
    2  -rwx          45  Mar 01 1993 00:02:09 +00:00  env_vars
    3  -rwx     3699303  Mar 01 1993 00:03:38 +00:00  c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA6.bin
    5  -rwx        1420  Mar 01 1993 00:07:32 +00:00  startup-conifg
    6  -rwx         616  Mar 01 1993 00:51:16 +00:00  vlan.dat
    7  -rwx        2359  Mar 01 1993 01:01:55 +00:00  config.text
    8  drwx        4416  Oct 03 2009 15:17:27 +00:00  html
  362  -rwx        1929  Mar 01 1993 01:01:55 +00:00  private-config.text
7741440 bytes total (2154496 bytes free)
SWT001#copy flash:c2950-i6k212q4-mz.121-22.EA6.bin tftp
Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.0.2
Destination filename [c2950-i6k212q4-mz.121-22.EA6.bin]?
%Error opening flash:c2950-i6k212q4-mz.121-22.EA6.bin (No such file or directory)

Answer 1

Do this first: 
config t
tftp flash:c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA6.bin
end
After this you can copy the file to the TFTP server.  No need to save the config.  
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