I’ve been searching for the details of an old design, and there it is in "My Designs’, ready for download. Wonderful - thanks GF peeps who thought that this might be a useful tool.
Having explored further, I discover that I’ve created >2000 files, so searching becomes a bit of a problem, the personal memory not being what it was !
The Search tool is great, but I need to remember what I labeled the file in the first place. I have, several times, used the export facility(another thank you due there) to recover lost files, lost because I’ve changed pc’s, hard drives etc, things go missing - you know how it is - so to get to the crux of this posting, is there some way to download the whole lot, 2000+ files, so that once and for all, I have a record of everything that I have created in the Glowforge ?
Thanks all, and keep well.
John 
I’m pretty certain the answer is a resounding no, because you have to do it within each design.
Technically it would be possible for GF to create that capability, but there’s no money in it for them to do so, so I wouldn’t hold your breath… Send them a note so that can put it in the hopper or whatever it’s called these days.
Yeah I have to agree with @eflyguy here. If you are feeling particularly industrious there’s probably a way to load all your files in the dashboard and then extract the links to each project.
Then you could probably script something that either figures out the structure of the download links or loads up each page and then clicks on the download link that results… But that’s going to be quite a bit of work and probably a little bit tricky because of the way that the Glowforge website is designed. It’s not straight HTML, it’s a JavaScript(probably) monstrosity that loads all kinds of things in various iframes and what not.
It’ll be a bunch of reverse engineering. I don’t know how much your files are worth to you, or if you’re technically minded to the point where you’d want to try something like this, but I’ll bet it’s somehow possible.
On the other hand Glowforge has intentionally made it difficult to figure these things out, as part of their copy protection. Trying to reverse engineer that might be intentionally more difficult than it has to be, to the point of being impossible.
Your best bet might be a scraper of some sort, but getting scrapers that work with websites that load the way Glowforge’s website loads can be difficult.
The right people to ask are support@glowforge.com
They might be able to help you with that if it is possible at all.
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