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Hi Anders,

The command appears to be correct, so can you specify what doesn't work? Are you getting an error, or does the solution simply not recycle once the file is uploaded?

- Jeppe

Hi Jeppe,

The only problem seems to be that the file is not uploaded :-) I have also tried with a file called anders.txt, but no file is located in the folder after the command.

Best regards, Anders

Hi again,

I seems like I was not persistent enough as it is now working.

Best regards, Anders

Maybe you have to put content in the file. 
the backend doesnt accept uploading empty files. 

Hi Kevin,
 

Thanks for the follow up. I realized two things to make it work; 

1. The folder should start with a /
2. And when I use powershell the folder was to be in quotes, so this part: System/CloudHosting has to be "/System/CloudHosting".

Best regards, Anders

We deploy files without a starting slash e.g.:

dw file -i ''D:\a\r1\a\_Build\Icons'' ''Icons'' --recursive true --overwrite true

Which means the starting slash on the remote folder isn't required, but yes we use quotes and because we have powershell variables for the folders we use double single quotes.

In my tests I can conclude, that you will need the starting slash when you are uploading a single file with "-i" command. At least I am not able to make it work without :-)

Could it be because you don't have a absolute path to your local file?

recycle.txt vs C:\temp\recycle.txt

Just weird, because it works for me :D