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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 14586

Download build artifacts from file share does not show drop folder content

At the end of the build, I publish artifacts to a file share drive.

But in the release pipeline, if I select the Agent job, I don't see the content of the drop folder, as shown below. Do I have to use a Download Build Artifacts task to go around this ? Or can I still use this option of the Agent job somehow ?

The artifacts were correctly published to the file share. However I also noticed that I cannot open the artifacts folder from the build log. I only see the path. How come ?

artifacts published

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1876

Answers (2)

Leo Liu
Leo Liu

Reputation: 76700

Download build artifacts from file share does not show drop folder content

This is an expected behavior. When we choose publish artifacts to a file share drive instead of Azure pipeline, the share drive can be our local path or a network shared folder.

So this share drive is more controlled by us than azure devops. In this case, Azure devops cannot provide a direct download link, only the path where we store the file.

Do I have to use a Download Build Artifacts task to go around this ? Or can I still use this option of the Agent job somehow ?

It depends on whether your agent running your release pipeline can access your share drive.

If yes, just like Shayki Abramczyk said, the agent will download the artifacts from the file share at the beginning of release.

Note: You need set the build pipeline as artifact source:

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The output:

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If the agent could not access that share drive, we need use the task like Download artifacts from file share to download the artifact.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

Shayki Abramczyk
Shayki Abramczyk

Reputation: 41545

This is the behavior of publishing to a file share, you can't "explore" the files inside Azure DevOps if it stored on a file share.

You don't need to use the Download Build Artifacts task because the agent will download the artifacts from the file share at the beginning of his run.

Upvotes: 1

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