I looked answers from this question Download file from Google Drive to local folder from Google Apps Script
The answers to above questions only give instructions to download a single file or folder, But I want to download a small no.(say 50) of random files from a folder, Is there any way to do this programmatically?
I would suggest by starting with file.list to return the first 100 files on your google drive account, you can then loop through them and download each of them one at a time. The file.list method has an option called q which would allow you to search for only files with in a directory using parents.
yes all of this can be done programmatically
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I'm looking for a solution that checks for the same filename when I'm downloading files, specifically through Firefox on Windows 10. I know that this feature comes standard when it comes to files in the same directory, but as the volume of files scales up, it's getting harder and harder to find what I'm looking for out of the files I've downloaded.
But since Firefox doesn't have an option to scan sub directories when saving files (nor can I find an add-on for Firefox that does something like it), I'm looking for any alternative solutions that would achieve what I'm looking for in the end: something that will notify me that I'm attempting to download (or have just downloaded) a file whose name already exists in the sub directory of a given folder, whether that be via an add-on, or some kind of application or script that can run in the background. Preferably, I would like it to check the folders inside of those sub folders as well.
My memory is terrible, so I opted to keep everything in the same folder so I would immediately get the warning when attempting to download a file I'd already downloaded. But said folder now contains far too many files for me to realistically glean through to find a particular file that I'm looking for.
I would like to be able to sort these files into sub folders of the folder I'm currently storing my downloaded files while keeping the functionality of being able to immediately tell whether or not I'm about to download something I've already downloaded. All I need is a check to see if the same filename exists upon trying to create a file (which is already a feature) - but in the sub directories as well. I do not need any functionality to actually view all the files in each sub folder in the same window.
I wonder if someone has ideas to my case.
I have a list of >200 pdf file names of documents that are saved in a share point folder and I need to copy them to another share point folder. I have looked at video clips of how to use Power Automate to copy/move files, which is very good when the file data type is used as the criteria for selecting the files. However, my list is in word and want to find a way of reading the file names, search them in the source folder and copy to the destination folder.
Any ideas?
You may consider to share the link to the 2nd SharePoint folder inside the 1st SharePoint folder to avoid copying at all?
That been said, you can load your word file into a list in Power Automate and then loop through the list (assuming your word doc has the complete path & filename line by line)
Some references:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/how-to/extract-text-word-document
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/use-loops
The rest should be as in the video clips.
People of Earth! Hello. As I can see in the docs, I'm able to download only one file using one API request. In order to download 10 files - I have to make 10 requests that makes me sad... Google Drive UI allows us to download archived files after selecting files and clicking on "download". Is there the same feature in the API that would allow me to download the desired number of files at once? I need Google Drive API to compress files and let me download an archive.
No there isn't. I believe (haven't tested it) that Google will respect Accept-Encoding: gzip for content downloads.
I'm writing an InnoSetup script to deploy software to a user's machine (default c:/programfiles) but I also want the user to be able to navigate to, say, a portable flash drive as well (like on a second page) and then have the installer load files to the HDD (programfiles) and then have it load files onto their selected flash drive - is this possible? How would I go about executing it?
thanks :)
I am not quite sure what you are trying to do but it sounds possible to me.
As you stated you could do this with a second page where you allow the user to select a drive or a directory where some files are.
You can then iterate over all files and install them into the selected program directory you chose in the setup before.
For more information it would be good if you could provide more information but so far this is the best answer i can give you for the provided information.
Maybe this helps you along when listing up all files in a directory:
Inno Setup: list all file names in an directory
And with this you can copy them:
Inno setup filecopy
And if you want a FolderBrowser use this:
Pascal Scripting: BrowseForFolder
I have some huge images in a folder on the web version of Dropbox that I need to make a shell script to download them one by one (There isn't enough room on my SDD and can't download the whole folder). I know using "wget" I can download a file:
wget link_to_the_file
However since I have many images it is not feasible to get the download link of each of them manually. I'm looking for a way of obtaining downloading link for each of them through the shell. Any suggestions?
Dropbox offers an API you can use to write a program to list and download multiple files.
For instance, you can use /2/files/list_folder[/continue] to list files, and then use /2/files/download to download them.
Those are links to the HTTPS endpoints, but there are corresponding native methods in the official SDKs, if you want to use one of those.