Challenges with Bulk Exporting Projects: Seeking Solutions

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really struggling to bulk export projects! 😭 my current method is to go into every folder, select all projects in that folder, and export them, but:

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    some exports seem to go on forever, while others are done in a couple of minutes. once an export is running, you cannot export other projects, which leads me to…

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    there’s no way to get an overview of the current export happening or to cancel it, for that matter, if it’s taking too long. is it stuck? has it given up? i only know an export is still processing (and hasn’t just vanished!) because i get this error message when i try to export other projects.

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    finally, there’s no way to tell bulk project exports apart — they all have the same filename Project export date.zip. i understand it’s complicated to find a name when it’s a bunch of projects but maybe using the Folder name in the filename could help?

so my question is: is there a way to cancel an export, when it’s taking too long, so i can instead try to export other projects? or what alternatives would you recommend for quickly exporting a lot of projects?

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    armina
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    hi Cameron, thanks so much for picking this up! a couple of clarifying follow ups:

    • none of the folders i was trying to export had more than 50 projects (the max was 20 projects)

    • still, a couple of times, even on batches of less than 10 projects, without closing the browser, the bulk export just ā€œvanishedā€ after a few hours — i didn’t get any notifications of it being ready, and the only reason i knew it was ā€œdoneā€ was because i was again able to export other projects.

    for this exercise, i’ll just export all the projects individually, but i definitely think this is an issue that is worth investigating.