When you go to an FTP/SFTP and click in the address path text box, you will see a URL which includes a double slash for the directory.
You can see this here:
The URL is:
ftp://cohosh//u01/app
The correct URL is:
ftp://cohosh/u01/app
When you type in the correct URL, you will see an error like this:
Can you please resolve FTP URL's being incorrect?
That is by design.
ftp://cohosh/ indicates you are in a path below the "cohosh" host.
/u01/app indicates you are in /u01/app on that host, i.e. u01/app relative to the host's root "/"
Together it is ftp://cohosh//u01/app
In our convention, ftp://cohosh/u01/app means something different: u01/app relative to the default folder (sometimes called the home folder) that the FTP site/account connects to, which is very often not the root folder.
If you look in the FTP log it may show a different folder to what you expect being CD'd into (and failing) if you omit the root slash.
Okay. I see.
That's quite different than most other FTP clients work, they address this issue by doing a PWD after connecting and then reflecting that in the URL, or by forcibly changing to the root folder when connecting.
It means I can't just click on FTP URL's (in websites, emails, etc) I will need to always copy, paste, edit, and then connect. Which makes using Directory Opus as my day to day client really annoying.