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 some useful targets for various retrieve() and deploy() options that you
can modify or use as is. To see a list of all 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 many components, use the listMetadata target to
identify the subset of files that you want to retrieve. You can also retrieve batches of
components as described in Retrieving Components in Bulk.
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