# Need to download avatar folder, can't

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-to-download-avatar-folder-cant/217286>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 25, 2007, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-to-download-avatar-folder-cant/217286 "2007-02-25T09:11:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![SmoothDime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SmoothDime](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SmoothDime)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-to-download-avatar-folder-cant/217286/1 "2007-02-25T09:11:08Z")

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hi,

for my forum i have a folder with about 80 user avatar images. they are all 30x30 pixels and are either .gif, .jpg or .png. so these are images that users have uploaded.

i need to download them to my desktop. normally when i need to download a file from my server i just drag and drop it onto my desktop and it always works.

so i first tried dragging and dropping the entire folder onto my desktop. i could see the avatars quickly being copied, but then it stops about 15 images into the transfer and says permission denied.

so then i tried doing a couple of the images one at a time. i tried it with 3 different images. when i drag them to my desktop it says permission denied and the file appears on my desktop but it’s 0kb.

i am using smartftp.

why can’t i download files from my server?!!!