After you cloned and set up the Magento commerce cloud project to your local system, you cannot see the media folder. You have to run a separate command to download the media folder and other assets of your cloud project.
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 to local.
Step 1: Open the CMD terminal of your local system.
Step 2: Run below command.
magento-cloud mount:download
Step 3: Above command ask you to choose your project first and then the environment of your project.
Step 4: Then it asks you to choose which folder you want to download from below. It looks like 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 can see the media folder will start downloading. and you are all set!