How to Use the File Transfer Activity in Automation Studio

In Automation Studio, you can unzip or decrypt a file found in the Enhanced FTP directory for Marketing Cloud Engagement. With the File Transfer Activity, you can securely transfer files from the Safehouse, a secure file transfer location, to a selected FTP location.

  • If you used a Marketing Cloud Engagement Public Key to encrypt a file in the Enhanced FTP directory, use Manage File, to unzip, or decrypt it. If you used Key Management for encryption, contact your account executive for other options.
  • To move a file from the secure file transfer location to a designated FTP location, use Move a File From Safehouse, formerly the Upload option.

Considerations

Engagement assumes that the FTP Server in the selected File Transfer Location is reporting time in UTC (no time zone offset). If the remote FTP server is not using UTC, adjust the specified hour limit to account for the variance. If the activity is used in an automation, use system buffer.

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