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How to download folder?

how to donwload the media folder of my web app to my own computer?

twintech | 28 posts | April 21, 2022, 12:38 p.m. | permalink

See https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/UploadingAndDownloadingFiles/.

Staff pafk | 2973 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | April 21, 2022, 3:56 p.m. | permalink

by reading through above instructions, I am still not clear about how to download a folder to my private machine. what is the simplest way? thanks for further explainations.

twintech | 28 posts | May 3, 2022, 6:30 p.m. | permalink

What is unclear for you on that help page? What should we improve there?

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | May 4, 2022, 8:54 a.m. | permalink

fowllowing the instruction I have downloaded winscp and been able to connect to the remoter server. However, the donwloading speed is just 10kb/second, which is really too slow. is there other means?

twintech | 28 posts | May 4, 2022, 4:54 p.m. | permalink

Are you downloading lots of really small files?

Staff glenn | 9498 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | May 4, 2022, 6:18 p.m. | permalink

YES, a lot of compressed photos uploaded by users.

twintech | 28 posts | May 5, 2022, 7:16 p.m. | permalink

Then try using rsync or seeing if winscp has an option to keep connections alive or something. It's slow because of trying to get each file in turn.

Staff glenn | 9498 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | May 6, 2022, 11:19 a.m. | permalink