Hi, I am unable to download data using the synGet function. I don't get any error messages either, but I see no trace of any data downloaded. Here is the code that I ran: ``` install.packages("synapser", repos=c("https://sage-bionetworks.github.io/ran", "http://cran.fhcrc.org")) library(synapser) synLogin("ycha@immuneering.com", "secret") mayo_WGS <- synGet("syn10901601", downloadLocation="~/Downloads/") ``` Here is my sessionInfo: ``` sessionInfo() R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Matrix products: default BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] synapser_0.1.25 rjson_0.2.15 PythonEmbedInR_0.1.11 R6_2.2.2 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.4.2 tools_3.4.2 yaml_2.1.16 codetools_0.2-15 pack_0.1-1 ``` Thanks so much!

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That is good to know, thank you! Although.. I think I will just switch to the command line client as it looks the easiest to use. Either way, thank you both for the detailed and quick replies!
You have a point! I re-read some of our documentation pages around [getting data](http://docs.synapse.org/articles/downloading_data.html) and it's not very clear, so I'll make a note to improve it from this context.   Some details for your curiosity. `synGet` doesn't necessarily mean download - indeed, there is a parameter to `synGet` that you can provide called `downloadFile`, which if turned off, won't download anything! You did get something - you got an object that represents the Folder you specified. There is metadata about the folder (properties, access controls, user-supplied annotations, etc) that you get when you do a `synGet`. You could do the same for a File - if you were only interested in information about the file, you wouldn't want to download it.   A better documentation link for recursive download is here: http://docs.synapse.org/articles/downloading_data.html#recursive-downloads   Eventually you will be able to do this in `synapser`!
That is good to know. Thank you for the helpful response! I think perhaps a warning message inside the synGet() function might be useful for future users when they select a folder instead of a file.
Hello @ycha, What do you see when you run: ``` mayo_WGS ``` after `synGet()` returns?
Hi! The Synapse ID you provided (syn10901601) is a folder. The `synGet` function does not recursively download folders. We are working on exposing this functionality in the `synapser` package. You have another option, which is to use the [File View](http://docs.synapse.org/articles/views.html) for the AMP-AD project at syn11346063, which is a listing of all data files for AMP-AD. It looks like you're interested in the whole genome sequencing data from the MayoRNASeq study. You can query for this data in this table:   https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse: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   The link above shows you a table with facets to help select data subsets. It also includes a 'How to Download' button giving some instructions on how to get this data.   The command line client (which comes with the [Synapse Python client](http://docs.synapse.org/articles/getting_started.html#installing-synapse-clients)) allows you to do this to download all of those files:   ``` synapse get -q "SELECT * FROM syn11346063 WHERE ( ( "study" = 'MayoRNAseq' ) AND ( "assay" = 'wholeGenomeSeq' ) )" ```   You could use this same query string in `synapser` using the `synTableQuery` function, and then use the 'id' column resulting from that to download each individual file.

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