Cannot find canister

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There’s an older topic on this issue but it was not resolved.

I have started to get “Cannot find canister xyz” when calling commands on a Canister that is up and running and has been for many months.

I can issue a “dfx canister --network ic status xyz” command and this returns valid data - but when I try and call a method on the Canister dfx says that it cannot find it.

Any ideas as I need to get access to this Canister?

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Can you copy/paste the exact commands you used and the concrete error message? This sounds really weird and may be a typo thing or something like that.
Another thing: are you using a canister principal or an alias? If you use an alias and don’t call this from the same folder where dfx.json is located, dfx will not be able to translate the alias to a principal.

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