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Files can be downloaded in bulk using the syncFromSynapse function found in the synapseutils helper package. This function crawls all the subfolders of the project or folder that you specify and retrieves all the files that have not been downloaded. By default, the files will be downloaded into your synapseCache, but a different download location can be specified with the path parameter. If you do download to a location out side of synapseCache, this function will also create a tab-delimited manifest of all the files along with their metadata (path, provenance, annotations, etc).
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