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Thanks for your expressions and feedback in a bulk download or print facility for Files (either from the Files library or at an individual transaction level)
We know that bulk operations can be handy, however at this time we have no plans to develop this functionality. We know it might seem like a small feat, however often even small change is more tightly woven and intricate to solve beneath the surface.
While we understand this must be frustrating to hear, we’re currently focused on making improvements in other areas of Xero and are unable to prioritise a bulk download or print feature right now.
However, in situations like these there are often connected apps through the Xero App Store that may be able to assist. We appreciate and will revise solutions that could fulfil needs in this space, but want to be honest this isn’t something we have plans for…An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment 
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Hi Platypus,
Apologies for the late reply as I have to log in after work.
Quick note before I reply, the site https://x-extentions.vercel.app/ will be moved to a more permanent home, for now I'm just testing the reception of this idea.
I do have some good news in that I have attached error logging/monitoring now, so I should be able to see what errors users are seeing, and based on what I have been experimenting with larger numbers of attachments to download, it seems that the server I was hosting this app on was configured to time out after 10 seconds. However with your case it's slightly a different thing, it seems I may not have configured the request timing properly, and therefore Xero may have just said "nope, too many requests" and thrown it back.
Thanks for reading through the long windedness! I will be working on it for sure, I also attached a screen shot on the new version that shows you how many attachments will be downloaded, to give a rough estimate on how long it could take.
I'll keep updating this thread in the meantime with how I'm getting on with this fix, thanks again for using it!
I also want to know more about how I can alleviate your security concerns as well, so the more information the merrier!
Kind Regards
ps: remember that the authentication is configured to last only half an hour for security measures, so if you see requests failing after half an hour then refresh and you should be able to see that you need to connect it again.
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Hi 👋, a bit late after work but I managed to add some updates to the security side of the app, I added a consent as well as reaffirmed the 30 minute access. As mentioned if more and more like it, I will add more features to this beta and hopefully we'll be able to have something that can add to our Xero experience.
Here's the link to the beta app: https://x-extentions.vercel.app/
The more input the better, thank you!
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Hi Kevin
Thank you so much for replying, this is the first time I got a response for any product I released on beta so I'm very thankful 🙏
And thank you for saying there could be value, it means alot to me that I'm starting to understand what it means to help customers relieve their pain in their business.
I want to assure you that this app is very secure in that it uses the Oauth2 process provided by xero, which means you didn't actually have to log on directly from the app, it was probably the case that your weren't logged in to start with?. All that the process does is that it goes to your xero and asks for permissions like being able to read attachments etc. Also, the deployed app uses https which encrypts data going back and forth to the server.
I totally respect your decision and will take this on board to make further security improvements and announcements to allow the user to feel more at ease. I'll keep this place updated too and show screenshots if anyone is interested!
Thanks again 🙌
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Hey y'all 👋.
I created a prototype app that helps you download bill attachments (as an example) by month https://x-extentions.vercel.app/ , It's still a little buggy so apologies. Also, due to the rate limitations xero put, we can only request one attachment per second, so 60 attachments mean 60 seconds possibly.
I created an example feature for bill attachments, if enough people see it possibly saving them time, I can build the other resources and help you enjoy this app once more.
Let me know, thanks!
Hello!
Regarding the download attachment beta project I have here: https://x-extentions.vercel.app/
Hope all is well here, I have some updates for the bills feature, looks like I've been able to fix the issue of timing out when downloading many files. So far I've clocked that it takes around1.2 seconds per attachment (which is very close to the 60 requests per minute limitation)! and keeping in mind that the maximum number of requests a user can make per 24 hours is 5000. So it may be that there needs to be something done on my end to arrange a long running task some point in the future.
I noticed a couple of things will stifle it at the moment, if you have a weirdly named file like ".png.pdf" which may confuse the compute to wonder about the actual format of the file. I'll report more on the other potential ways later, but fingers crossed it works for most of you 🤞
Would appreciate it if you let me know how you get on
Kind Regards