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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?

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


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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@Anders Albert I’m currently using 0.6.60 version 


Anders  Albert
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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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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?