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I have been using FileZilla to manage files on my GCP VM using SFTP. I created a key pair using KeyGen on Ubuntu Linux, copied the pub key into the SSH Keys on my VM instance and loaded the private key into FileZilla, where it converted it to a ppk format. That worked great.

This weekend, my pub key expired, so I created a new key pair and placed the keys in the same way I had previously. But now, FileZilla gives me an error "Error: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)".

I tried putting the pub key in the VM instance, in the project, and in both places at once, but no combination has worked.

Per other solutions I found online, I have ensured that the local key files are in a folder that FileZilla has full access to.

I've been fighting with this for hours, and am at wit's end.

Edit:
Here's the sequences of messages on FileZilla when I try to connect:

Status: Connecting to 104.199.127.13...
Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=4
Command: keyfile "/home/steve/.ssh/teamifi-key.ppk"
Command: open "steve@104.199.127.13" 22
Error: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)
Error: Could not connect to server

You could try to connect to the instance via browser (the SSH button on the cloud console) or a gcloud compute ssh command from the Cloud Shell to make sure that you are able to connect to the instance via SSH.

Then from the instance check the security logs (/var/log/secure) to see the reason why your connection is denied.

In the serial port logs of the instance you can also see if the SSH key metadata has been added, and if SSH connectivity has been denied and why.
I hope this helps