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Cole, I appreciate your reply and links. I am not a programmer, however, which is why I was looking for guidance with Cygwin in the first place. Earthdata's very brief instructions - screenshot attached - were to download the .sh file with the 45,824 file names. (It did not specify where to save it,...

Downloading one at a time is not the problem, nor is that specific granule. Cygwin is what Earthdata suggests for downloading using a script. Otherwise it would take a year. Literally. For some reason, that granule is hard-coded into the script generated by Earthdata as the output for all "unab...

Janice, that was the first app I authorized, since it's mentioned in that old wiki article.
Hence, my absolute confusion. I ended up downloading ETOPO1, but the resolution is not as good.
Any other pointers?
Thanks,
Su

Novice coder here, read: Windows 10 user who knows what a DOS prompt is, lol ... I am wracking my brain trying to use the Cygwin console to download many, many thousands of files to add to a GIS (using QGIS). I have successfully downloaded the shell file script (download.sh) and after some digging i...