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Prashant Chauhan
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November 6, 2025
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Toolkit: cdf download raw

  • November 6, 2025
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Hi Team,

I'm using the Cognite Toolkit to test the CDF download raw functionality. I’ve observed that the download process fails when the staging database name contains a special character such as :.

For example, if the database name is state:odbc, the cdf download raw command fails because it attempts to create a temporary folder with the same name as the staging database. Since : is not a valid character for directory names, the folder creation fails.

Additionally, when I try to download the raw data from another database (without special characters), three files are created in the temporary directory:

.Table.yaml

Manifest.yaml

RawRows.ndjson.gz

Could you please confirm if the RawRows.ndjson.gz file is expected, or should the output be in .csv format?

    Best answer by Anders Albert

    Suggest you go to newest version 0.7. We have released docs now for the new functionality: https://docs.cognite.com/cdf/deploy/cdf_toolkit/guides/plugins/data_plugin/index

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    Mithila Jayalath
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    Mithila Jayalath
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    November 10, 2025

    ​@Anders Albert will you be able to help out here?

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    Anders Albert
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    November 19, 2025

    ​@Prashant Chauhan Which version of Toolkit are you on. This should have been fixed recently.

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    Prashant ChauhanAuthor
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    November 27, 2025

    ​@Anders Albert I’m currently using 0.6.60 version 

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    December 2, 2025

    Suggest you go to newest version 0.7. We have released docs now for the new functionality: https://docs.cognite.com/cdf/deploy/cdf_toolkit/guides/plugins/data_plugin/index

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      Prashant ChauhanAuthor
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      December 5, 2025

      Sure.
      ​@Anders Albert In the latest version of the Toolkit, if RAW/Staging database table names contain special characters such as “:”, will this have any impact on the download process when using the cdf download raw command? Specifically, does the presence of “:” in the table name affect the ability to download the table successfully?

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      Anders Albert
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      December 7, 2025

      No, it does not. Toolkit sanitize the filename is uses for the table such that it is compatible with all operating systems.

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