To retrieve Lightning Platform 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. AppExchange packages use different limits. In
API version 43.0 and 44.0, AppExchange packages can contain up to 12,500 files. In
API version 45.0, AppExchange packages can contain up to 17,500 files. In API
version 46.0, AppExchange packages can contain up to 22,000 files. In API version
47.0
through
50.0, AppExchange packages can contain up to 30,000 files.
In API version
51.0 and later, AppExchange packages can contain up to 31,000
files.The maximum size of the deployed or retrieved .zip file is
39 MB. If the files are uncompressed in an unzipped folder, the size limit is 400
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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