Very useful information! Thanks. I'll give that a try right now :) - quick note for anyone looking for info on this: make sure the directory you download to is new and is empty. I tried to use \desktop and it gave me an angry error message D:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:39:39 PM UTC+11, Julie wrote: > > *Hi Janika,* > * > * > *It sounds like you may be running the command from the Python command > prompt.* > * > * > *The appcfg.py command is designed to be run from a normal Windows > commnand prompt (cmd.exe).* > * > * > *The syntax is indeed used without the angle brackets;* > appcfg.py download_app -A *apageaboutturtles -V 1 > c:\users\me\desktop\source_folder* > * > **Regards,* > * > * > *Julie* > * > * > On 24 October 2012 16:10, Janika Humphries <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi people, I know this is somewhat of a controversial topic, but being >> the brand new developer that I am, I've lost my source code and have no >> backups of it. >> >> I'd like to use the Python SDK command line tool to download it, but >> running appcfg.py download_app -A *<apageaboutturtles>* -V >> *<1>*<C:\users\*****\desktop> >> gives syntax errors >> >> I have tried removing the brackets, and I've also tried some of the other >> commands in the help page, which all also return syntax errors. The little >> syntax error arrow (it looks like ^) appears under the last letter of >> download_app. Does that shed any light on the problem? >> >> Whether I recover my data or not I will be taking a lesson from this, and >> have signed up for dropbox! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/FhkRsV775CkJ. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/uFC3k3RYUsIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
