Error: Session timeout during ascp transfers

If you attempt an ascp transfer over a network with high latency or to or from storage with slow read or write, you might receive a timeout error message. You can increase the timeout to allow your transfers to complete.

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The message is similar to the following:

ERR Failed to receive Close Session, read timed out (errno=110) timeout:120, rsize=0

To increase the timeout, follow these steps:

Procedure

Run the following asconfigurator command:
```
$ asconfigurator -x "set_node_data;session_timeout_sec,time"
```
Where time is the wanted time in seconds before timeout. Which creates the following text in aspera.conf:
```
<default>
     <session_timeout_sec>time</session_timeout_sec>
</default>
```
Alternatively, manually edit aspera.conf.

The aspera.conf configuration file is in the following location:

/Library/Aspera/etc/aspera.conf