# How to copy multiple files from an FTP site?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 4, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487 "2013-12-04T16:27:16Z")
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### Author: ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487/1 "2013-12-04T16:27:16Z")

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I don’t really like asking computer related questions here because I know thats not what this site is for but I’m stumped and would appreciate some help.

I’m trying to download back-issues of a classic games magazine I used to read. Is there anyway to copy these files/images all at once instead of labouriously clicking to copy them to my hard-drive one by one _(I’d like to read them offline)_

eg:

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/YourSinclair/Issue05/Pages/

Any ideas?

Thank you!

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### Author: ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487/2 "2013-12-04T16:44:09Z")

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Use an FTP client like Filezilla - [https://filezilla-project.org/](https://filezilla-project.org/)

I just tried it with FZ and it works like a charm.

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### Author: ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487/3 "2013-12-04T16:54:26Z")

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Great, thank you, I’ll give that a try.

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### Author: ![whyizjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e495f1/32.png) [@whyizjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whyizjay)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487/4 "2013-12-04T17:17:02Z")

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If you use FireFox, try the extension DownThemAll . It will easily do what you want.

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### Author: ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487/5 "2013-12-04T18:33:18Z")

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> [@whyizjay](#):
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> If you use FireFox, try the extension DownThemAll . It will easily do what you want.

That worked, thank you!

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### Author: ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487/6 "2013-12-05T03:59:40Z")

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if you’re using a command-line ftp client, then the “mget” command will get multiple files.

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### Author: ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-copy-multiple-files-from-an-ftp-site/675487/7 "2013-12-06T03:50:35Z")

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> [@breezman](#):
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> if you’re using a command-line ftp client, then the “mget” command will get multiple files.

I think the “prompt” defaults to on…so you’ll want to send a prompt command so it doesn’t ask you to confirm every file.