Please refer to their documentation for usage instructions and troubleshooting tips. For example, Filezilla and NcFTP Client are free for download. Many reliable FTP clients can be found on Internet. The submission folder is a temporary holding area and it will be removed after the whole submission is finished processing (the button Submit is clicked).

If you upload your files in the account folder directly or place the files into a nested folder, you will not be able to see or select the submission folder as instructed below.

Navigate (use command cd) to your account folder a submission folder (use command mkdir) for your data within your FTP account folder ( and deposit your files into the submission folder. These commands terminate the FTP session and exitįTP Command line Instructions for the SRA Submission Portal WizardĪfter you connected to the NCBI FTP server: Once back in the operating system, type 'exit' to get back to the FTP command line. Toggles back and forth between the operating system and ftp. ActionĬhange into directory with your data filesĬhange into that directory with arbitrary name File transfer can be initiated in Windows Command Prompt ( Start -> Command Prompt), Mac Terminal ( Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal), Linux, and Unix.

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