You cannot see the media folder after you cloned and set up the Adobe Commerce Cloud (previously Magento Commerce Cloud) project on your local system. You have to run a separate command to download Adobe Commerce project’s media folder and other assets. Transferring data between your local development setup and the cloud environment is a crucial part of running an Adobe Commerce Cloud store. We’ll walk you through downloading the media folder from Adobe Commerce Cloud to your local system in this blog article.
Prerequisites: Before you begin, ensure you have:
– Adobe Commerce Cloud access
– Local development environment set up
– Basic command-line knowledge
– Magento cloud commands knowledge
Command to Download the Media Folder From Magento Cloud to Localhost.
magento-cloud mount:download
Below are detailed steps to download the media folder from the Adobe Commerce Cloud server locally.
Step 1: Open the CMD terminal of your local system.
Step 2: Run the below command.
magento-cloud mount:download
Step 3: The above command asks you to choose your project first and then your project’s environment.
Step 4: Then, it asks you to choose which folder you want to download from below. It looks like the image below.
Enter a number to choose a mount to download from:
[0] app/etc
[1] pub/static
[2] var
[3] pub/media
[4] All mounts
Step 5: We want to download the media folder only, so we will select 3
Step 6: Then, it asks to enter the target directory.
NOTE: The target directory must be the specific path of your local system.
Step 7: After you enter the target directory and hit enter, you will see that the media folder will start downloading. and you are all set!