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PutFile processor not showing error but file cannot be found

rafy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:53:21 GMT

Please, i have files i want to move from a Nifi to a folder in another machine. The ip address of Nifi & the destination are 173.24.206.40 ,173.24.206.44 respectively, meaning they are on the same network.

I specified 173.24.206.44/home/username/destination_folder as distination directory in PUTFile processor BUT the destination_folder is empty & there was no error.

Thanks.

Re: PutFile processor not showing error but file cannot be found

MattWho — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:20:45 GMT

@rafy
The PutFile processor is used to write the content of FlowFiles to the local file system. It can not be used to write files tp a remote system. The reason you are seeing no error is because the PutFile processor is creating that directory path using the ip address as a folder name on your local machine where NiFi is running and writing your FlowFile's content there.

If you want to write a remote server, you would need to use a processor like the putSFTP processor assuming you have an SFTP server running on that remote server that your can successfully connect with.

Another option would be to install NiFi on both servers and use NiFi's Site-to-SIte capability to send FlowFiles from one NiFi to another and then on the receiving NiFi use the putFile processor to write your FlowFile content to disk.

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Thank you,

Matt

Re: PutFile processor not showing error but file cannot be found

rafy — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:03:26 GMT

Thanks Mr @MattWho . In addition to your solution, i looked into Network Attached Storage & NFS. So i configured nfs server on the source, then configured nfs client on the destination. And lastly mount the source folder to the destination folder on restart.

Thank you all.