This can occur if the specific FTP server returns an extra line at the start of the directory listing e.g. "total x".
To work around this issue please try the following steps:
1. Define a custom "dir" parser function:
function names = myCustomDirParser(entries, serverLocale)
% Ignore the first line in the dir output.
entries(1) = [];
entries = join(entries, newline);
% Read the rest of the entries using the normal FTP Unix dir parser.
import matlab.io.ftp.parseDirListingForUnix
names = parseDirListingForUnix(entries, 1, false, "unix", serverLocale);
end
2. Implement the function when fetching file names:
fserver = 'ftp.host.domain';
f = ftp(fserver, DirParserFcn=@myCustomDirParser);
allFiles = dir(f, '/location/');
