Meshcentral: Ability to download remote folder (recursive)
It would be really useful if one could select a remote folder (and therefore it's sub-folders) and then download it's entire content.
D4V3M0NK
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This is one for Bryan. It's been requested before, the MeshAgent would "tar" the selected files/folders and send that over as a single file. It's not really possible with browsers to download many files/folders, but using tar seems like the best way.
Ylianst
on 25 Jun 2019
zip would be better, at least for us Windows users. ;-)
PathfinderNetworks
on 27 Jun 2019
That is a good point. I wonder if a store-only zip would be simple for the agent to generate? One point here, the file must be generated "on-the-fly" (streaming) as the agent will read the files/folders one-by-one and send then to the browser as it goes.
Ylianst
on 27 Jun 2019
I remember looking into this before. I couldn't find anything built in. The closest I found was that if the machine had 7-zip installed, it supports pipe redirection, among other things, so that you could compress on the fly.
krayon007
on 27 Jun 2019
Have you looked at the node-7z-forall package on NPM? It downloads 7-Zip binaries that don't need to be 'installed' for whatever platform (win/mac/linux) you're on, which might be useful if you do decide to use 7-Zip's streaming archive creation.
MailYouLater
on 24 Sep 2019
the download button in "file transfer" is also missing.
fra-pel
on 25 Sep 2019
@callimmak: That's because (currently) the way to download a file is to click on its name.
MailYouLater
on 25 Sep 2019
I'm writing a streaming tar encoder on the agent, so we can dynamically tar and stream stuff from the agent to the server/browser.
krayon007
on 25 Sep 2019
As PathfinderNetworks says above. .zip would be nice for Windows users, as Windows doesn't have a way to open .tar files built in.
Also, if you were to use 7-Zip, it would be just as easy to add streaming .zip and .7z as .tar, and optionally compress the contents too.
MailYouLater
on 25 Sep 2019
@krayon007: You say you're writing a streaming tar encoder. What language are you writing it in? i.e. Will it be included as part of the MeshAgent binary? or part of the 'core' which is written in JavaScript? If JS, you might want to look at www.archiverjs.com to see if you can use it directly, or how much, if any of it could be useful in helping you write your own.
MailYouLater
on 26 Sep 2019
I already finished it. It's written in JS. It was pretty simple. Ylian has the bigger task of integrating it into the webux, lol. But integrating it into the core is super easy, as it exposes a readable stream, that you can than pipe to any writable stream, like a websocket stream, file stream, etc.
krayon007
on 27 Sep 2019
At some point Ylian can look into writing a module server side to transcode tar to zip, as I'm trying to avoid 3rd party dependencies on the agent side that aren't installed by default.
krayon007
on 27 Sep 2019
UZIP.js demonstrates that creating a zip can be a very small, simple bit of JavaScript too. Perhaps you could use it, or do something similar?
MailYouLater
on 27 Sep 2019
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I already finished it. It's written in JS. It was pretty simple. Ylian has the bigger task of integrating it into the webux, lol. But integrating it into the core is super easy, as it exposes a readable stream, that you can than pipe to any writable stream, like a websocket stream, file stream, etc.