Roger Meier's Forums

Hi, thanks for CoolTerm. I have noticed that, on macOS at least, files received via YMODEM have _temp_timestamp appended on the end of their filename. I had a look through the options and couldn't seem to find anything configurable. Is there a way to preserve the original name? If not, could this perhaps become a configurable option? Thanks!

Hi,

YMODEM expects the sender to send the filename. If it doesn't receive a filename with the transmission, the it will retain the temporary filename from when it first created the file locally. Are you sure your sender includes the filename? Perhaps its transmitting in XMODEM mode while CoolTerm is in YMODEM receive mode?

Roger

Another possibility is that a file with the same name as the received file already exists in the location your receiving to. CoolTerm doesn't overwrite existing file. It appends a timestamp to the received file.