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What I'm trying to do is pretty simple: move a file from my SD card to a mounted USB drive, using filezilla as FTP client

Here's what I get:
Status: Renaming '/home/s0ubap/file.avi' to '/mnt/file.avi'
Command: RNFR file.avi
Response: 350 Ready for RNTO.
Command: RNTO /mnt/file.avi
Response: 550 Rename failed.

File: -rw-rw-rw- 1 debian-transmission debian-transmission
Destination folder: drwxrwxrwx 2 root root

Using manually 'mv' command in SSH works, while this very same command used by sftp does not.

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  • I also tried sftp, which uses mv command. Didn't work...
    – s0ubap
    Jul 24, 2015 at 20:54
  • Can you type "ls -l" and edit your question with the output, only the related file's line and also the folders containing it up to root would be enough.
    – Tolga Varol
    Jul 24, 2015 at 23:27
  • Very confused. Are both the SD card and the mounted USB drive on the same pi? If so, why use an FTP client? Why not just ssh into the pi and move it from the command line?
    – ifermon
    Jul 25, 2015 at 0:42
  • Because I have several files to move/rename, and the ftp client (filezilla) allows me to drag and drop easily.
    – s0ubap
    Jul 25, 2015 at 0:47
  • are you using the same user when move file via ssh and ftp? Sounds like permissions issue.
    – jet
    Nov 22, 2015 at 14:59

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Don't have the rep to comment, so i have to answer.

Because I have several files to move/rename, and the ftp client (filezilla) allows me to drag and drop easily.

Why not use something like 

mv /home/s0ubap/*.avi /mnt/.

to move all the needed (avi) files at once? You could also use find for filtering:

find <your_src_dir> -regex '<regex>' -exec mv '{}' <your_dest_dir>/. \;

In your case you'd have:

find /home/s0ubap -regex '.*\.avi' -exec mv '{}' /mnt/. \;

Depending on your use case, you may have to change the regex.

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  • Sure, I already have python scripts to move some of my files. But I still need to manipulate some files manually.
    – s0ubap
    Jul 25, 2015 at 8:15

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