Hello, I would to ask how to download a folder. thank you.
Created by Sherine Saber ssaber Hello!
You have a few options for downloading whole folders. If you go to the folder in Synapse, there should be a "Download Options" button in the upper right. It gives you two options:
1. If you click "Add to Download Cart", it will add all files to a queue for you. Then in the left-hand side bar, there should be a symbol for "Download cart" which will let you download all files as a zip file. If the files are especially large (i.e. fastq files) you can download them one-by-one from the cart.
2. If you click "Programmatic options", it gives you code in several different languages that can be used to download the whole folder, if you have the synapseclient installed on your machine.
If you want to go the programmatic route and don't have the client installed, you can install it as follows in your preferred language:
Python:
```
pip install synapseclient
````
R:
```
install.packages("synapser", repos = c("http://ran.synapse.org", "http://cran.fhcrc.org"))
install.packages("synapserutils", repos=c("http://ran.synapse.org", "http://cran.fhcrc.org"))
```
I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions.
Jaclyn