If you have a MoDaC user account and you have write access to an AWS S3 bucket, you can download one or more files to it:
- Log in, as described in Logging In.
- Search for the data of interest, as described in Finding Data.
- In the search results, you have the following choices:
- To download an entire asset, select the asset of interest. (If you have a user account with upload permission, you can select multiple assets.) Click Download Selected Assets.
- To download part of an asset, click the link for the asset of interest. The Asset Details page appears. (If the asset has subfolders, navigate to the file of interest: Click each folder to open it.) Select one or more files for download:
- To download one file, click the download file icon in that row.
- To download one folder, click the download folder icon in that row.
- To select all files at the asset level, select the Batch Select checkbox. (To deselect one file, click the checkbox in that row.) Click Download Selected.
The Download page appears, listing the selected file or files. (To deselect one file, click the checkbox in that row.)
- Select AWS S3.
- Specify the following information:
- The name of the destination S3 bucket.
- The path to and the name of the folder in the destination bucket. Do not begin the path with a slash. If the destination folder structure you specify does not already exist, MoDaC creates it.
- The AWS access key.
- The AWS secret access key.
- The region.
- Click Download. The system transfers the data based on your selections.
- When the system displays the task ID, consider viewing the status of the download. For instructions, refer to Viewing Status.
