Download multiple attachments at once

Lol , please fix this I have to click download 50 times in a row today just to access the set of csv spreadsheets which were assigned to me in a single task. C’mon ?!?

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Hi A-team. I just found something annoying. We as a LED-lighting distributor and adviser use tasks as inquiries from clients. When in such tasks an on-site stocktaking happens, a lot of photo’s are being uploaded to the Asana task by mobile. However, when I try to download these attachments from Asana, I apparently have to download them all separately…? A bit waste of time. Would be great to have some kind of check-boxes besides the attachment to determine which attachments you want to download in a .zip folder, or at least an option to download everything at once. Thanks

Hi @Jeroen_Bulten and thank you so much for sharing your feedback with us! This is a popular topic in the Forum (see this other thread, slightly different from yours Add a "download all" button to tasks & conversations), so hopefully this is something we address in a future update. I don’t have any precise timeline to share today, but I’ll make sure to keep you posted here as soon as I have more info!

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Hi Marie,
Has there been any progress on this issue since October 2019? Thanks in advance
Geoff

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I’m adding my vote to this function as well. It’s such a hassle downloading attachments one by one!

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Bumping, this needs to be addressed. It’s such a small thing to add but would greatly enhance functionality.

But quite hard to code and stressful on the servers…

Bulk download is not a new or innovative feature, so that’s a pretty weak copout to say it’s “difficult to code”.
Secondly, the stress on the servers wouldn’t be appreciably different between the user downloading one at a time and asana providing 1 zip file to download. It’s just a nuisance and time waste for the end user is the only difference.

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I work in marketing so we use asana as a way to easily centralize images and files. One of my daily sore point with asana is the inability to download multiples files at once. I searched on this forum and that feature was requested back in 2017 (5 years ago), so I guess I am not the only one with that issue. Is there any work around? Is that feature in consideration?

Hello @Pierre-Marc_Mazeroll welcome to the Asana Community!

I recommend upvoting this existing thread :slight_smile: Download multiple attachments at once

Bridge24 offers the ability to download files in bulk: Add a "download all" button to tasks & conversations - #60 by Daniel_Raymond

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any chance I could learn the trick ???

This would make work life a million times eaiser as i have to download all pictures for my techs so i can send invoices, please make this happen sooner than later

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It would be nice if there was a button within a task to download all attachments. We use tasks to hand off assets and sometimes there can be quite a lot, so being able to easily and natively download everything in one button would save me time.

I don’t consider having to sign up to another provider as an issue being solved.

Poor development support.

We need an option to download all files attached in a project without having to pay for a 3rd party source, please integrate it into Asana, it would completely overhaul our processes if you do.

Hey @Jeff_Lindahl,

And here is a free option a user has mentioned: Export All Data from Asana - #9 by Pawel_Swiderski

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Hello, I appreciate the link but that’s not a proper solution for us. We need our end users to have it built into Asana with an intuitive 1 click solution. No end-users should be expected to mess about with a 3rd party hotfix.

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Sure makes total sense. It was just a suggestion as a workaround for now :slight_smile:
BTW don’t forget to leave a vote yourself as well @Jeff_Lindahl :wink:

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This thread began in June 2017. It currently has 51 up votes and several other threads that voices the same issues. How many up votes does a request need to be actionable?

It would be magnificent for project members to be able to navigate to the Files section and have an option to ‘download all’ instead of downloading one by one. We use Asana for customer implementations and provide them with a plethora of additional resources that we upload to the board. At the end of implementation, they are tasked with downloading files as printing the board in CSV does not extract the files by card. Additionally, being able to export the status updates via print would be phenomenal, but I will add that as separate feedback.

It would also be advantageous to add more iconography options and color schemas to enhance the ability to be more accurate to customer’s brands. Think more sports, science, builders, floral and more. Having separation based on the client’s brand allows us as project owners to create separation by icon and color, making our search for projects easier and also enhances the customer experience by respecting their brand identity.