Uncaught Error: privateKey value does not contain a (valid) private key

[mmanou]

Occurs when a file is saved in the same folder as .remote-sync.json.
Private key is in format: ssh-rsa <key value>== rsa-key-<key name>
My apologies, I cannot recall what the name of the format is. It was generated using PuTTYgen on the same machine.

.remote-sync.json file has the following text, with some sensitive details removed:
"logger": {
"title": "Remote Sync"
},
"uploadOnSave": true,
"useAtomicWrites": false,
"deleteLocal": false,
"hostname": "<ip address>",
"port": "22",
"target": "<target>",
"ignore": [
".remote-sync.json",
".git/**"
],
"username": "<username>",
"keyfile": "<location>",
"watch": [],
"transport": "scp",
"useAgent": true
}

Note that I also tried setting "useAgent" to false. The same issue arrises regardless of the value.

Atom: 1.36.0 x64
Electron: 2.0.18
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Thrown From: remote-sync package 4.1.8

Stack Trace

Uncaught Error: privateKey value does not contain a (valid) private key

At C:\Users\Owner\.atom\packages\remote-sync\node_modules\ssh2\lib\client.js:232

Error: privateKey value does not contain a (valid) private key
    at Client.connect (/packages/remote-sync/node_modules/ssh2/lib/client.js:232:13)
    at ScpTransport.module.exports.ScpTransport._getConnection (/packages/remote-sync/lib/transports/ScpTransport.coffee:179:16)
    at ScpTransport.module.exports.ScpTransport.upload (/packages/remote-sync/lib/transports/ScpTransport.coffee:54:6)
    at UploadListener.module.exports.UploadListener.processFile (/packages/remote-sync/lib/UploadListener.coffee:48:17)
    at /packages/remote-sync/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:4096:9
    at Object.process (/packages/remote-sync/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:2344:17)
    at /packages/remote-sync/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:2252:19
    at Immediate._onImmediate (/packages/remote-sync/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:119:16)
    at runCallback (timers.js:789:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:751:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:722:5)

Commands

  2x -1:54.6.0 core:save (input.hidden-input)

Non-Core Packages

dbg 1.6.3 
dbg-gdb 1.7.8 
language-matlab-octave 0.3.0 
output-panel 0.3.4 
remote-sync 4.1.8