Help with automation sequence

Hello, I am having an odd problem with FCS. So I have a workflow and here are the steps:
1)Export m4v file from Screenflow to "Screenflows" folder
2)FCS recognizes the m4v file and moves it to "convert to ogv folder"
3)Here it is recognized by a folder action which runs a script to convert the m4v file into an ogv file
*This is the problem 4)FCS recognizes the m4v file and the ogv file and uploads them to server.
What happens in step 4 is baffling. It is supposed to upload two files, the m4v file and ogv file. The problem is, that I get an error when trying to upload the m4v file. It says "No such file or directory" but the ogv file uploads just fine
Any ideas what could be causing this?

Are you making an asset out of the file you are fetching from the FTP server and transcoding? In that case you can make a subscription that listens for new assets for that device and execute a copy response on them that sends them back to the FTP server.
If you are not making assets out of them, you could have your transcode deposit its output into a watcher and execute the copy response to the FTP server from there.
Can you provide more detail on how you are doing what is already working for you? I also suggest starting a new thread since this one is already marked as "answered" from the original post's author.

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edit:
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regards,
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Message Edited by catman2u on 03-18-2008 05:04 AM
Message Edited by catman2u on 03-25-2008 02:41 AM

catman2u wrote:
does anyone from Lenovo actually read this forum?
From the Communiy Rules in the Welcome section....
Objectives of Lenovo Discussion Forums
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No amount of ranting is going to get you anything more than you will achieve with a clear exposition of your issue... so you might want to try doing that instead of ranting and assuming that everyone already knows what you know etc etc.
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BQWHIT - not sure your question has really been answered at all…
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