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This week, I paid the price for underestimating the power of technology. I wanted to download over 1000 files from a particular server for a project I am working on. The files aren’t accessible to the public but I and my team member found a workaround so we were able to access them via client server. Now came the real task, Downloading the files one by one. I first thought about using ftp tools but then I discovered I couldn’t download the files. It was as if the files were server-read-only. The second option was to write a download code, but since I assumed that the files were read only, I gave up trying to batch download them and started downloading them one by one through a google chrome extension Boy!!!! It was really a boring process. I was already at file 470 when my team member called that he has figured out a way to download them automatically. I was happy but very sad. I gave up sleep for the download process I said to myself. Apparently, he wrote a python tool that looped over the files in the directory we were downloading from, pulled the files we needed and then saved them to a local directory. Why didn’t I think of this I said to myself. Two lessons learnt for me. First, there’s always a way to do something automatically as long as it involves the internet. Second, always tell people you trust about your problems. They might have a handy solution for you.
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Lesson learned the hard way. Such a situation can be so annoying
And really frustrating
Technology has really gone far than the way we are thinking it.
Yea. Exactly.
i think when situation is hard we don't need to tell anyone because they believe we cannot handle our situation
No. As a matter of time, it’s always good to seek advice from someone else whenever one is facing a challenge.
yes but sometimes they'll not give any positive advice and i personally believe a person solve its problem better than asking from others.
Well, I agree that this might be needed sometimes, but more often than not sharing one’s problem is actually productive.
The funny thing is that the solution is actually easy when you think about it 😆 These things happen sometimes, someone else will see something which you didn't see, that's the beauty of being part of a team
Yes. Being in a team comes with a lot of benefits. And this is one of them.
I'm glad we met.
Me too.
Is it tony? He must be a genius 🔥.
That's one of the good things about the internet. We can get the help we needed from the right person :)