Hi
I'm using the command line to download many files.
Can I download multiple file in parallel, let's say 5 files at a time?
Or I can only download them one by one?
Thank you
Created by Efrat Katsman ekushele Hi @ekushele, the Synapse client currently does not support parallel file download. There are ways, however, to automatically download multiple files instead of putting in individual Synapse IDs. Here are a couple of places in our documentation that describe [downloading data](https://docs.synapse.org/articles/downloading_data.html#downloading-in-bulk) using these methods:
- Recursive download (is available from the command line): https://docs.synapse.org/articles/downloading_data.html#recursive-downloads
- Bulk download using `syncFromSynapse` (similar to recursive download): https://docs.synapse.org/articles/downloading_data.html#downloading-in-bulk
There are some other methods to download data in bulk if other data structures (like a [File View](https://docs.synapse.org/articles/views.html)) has been set up.
You can also use the web site to add files to a download queue for multi-file download, but the size and number of files is limited.