To retrieve Force.com components:
- Open a command prompt.
- Run Ant by specifying a target name in build.xml. If this is the first time you are running Ant, use ant retrieveUnpackaged to retrieve unpackaged
components specified in package.xml.
- The sample build.xml contains a number of useful targets for various
retrieve() and deploy() options that you can
modify or use as is. To see a list of all of your named targets in
build.xml, enter ant -p at the
command line.
- You can deploy or
retrieve up to 10,000 files at once and the maximum size of the deployed or
retrieved .zip file is 39 MB. If you are
working with a large number of components, use the listMetadata target to identify the subset of files that you want to
retrieve, or retrieve batches of components using the Retrieving Components
in Bulk.
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