Help with FTPing files to the cRIO

[Birdlives]

Hey guys,

My team wants to create an ambiguous autonomous that we can use on almost any robot if our auton fails. We planned on doing this by FTPing tab-delimited text files that describe vectors to drive along to a specific folder on the cRIO using filezilla and then retrieving them using a file path constant in labview.

We tested this by putting a file named "autontest1.txt" into the /ni-rt/startup directory, making our file path in labview "/ni-rt/startup/autontest1.txt" but when we run our code, labview throws error 1430 "The path is empty or relative. You must use an absolute path"

I've already done a lot of research on how the file paths work on the cRIO (it's linux) and how to fix error 1430 on various platforms, but to no avail.

Thanks ahead of time!!
John