Hello guys, I am a knime-noob and building my 1st workflow. I have read through this guide ( https://docs.knime.com/2019-06/analytics_platform_workbench_guide/index.html#mountpoints ) while using mount points and the knime:// protocol. However, the protocol behaves strange and unexpected in my testproject workflow. I am using knime://knime.workflow/data as location to store and retrieve files. I ran the workflow on both Mac and Windows just to see if they behave differently (no they did not, both unexpected results). My workflow (named testproject): Download a file using Https Connection node and Download node to target knime://knime.workflow/data. This target maps to local directory INSIDE my Application folder, KNIME 4.0.1.app/MacOS/knime on MAC OS X. The same behaviour on Windows but inside c:\Program Files\KNIME. This is not what I expected by reading the mountpoint guide. Unzip the file to target knime://knime.workflow/data. Now the unzipped file in put in subdirectory data inside the workspace (/Users/xxx/knime-workspace/testproject/data). The same behaviour on Windows. Zip the previous file (just for fun) to target knime://knime.workflow/data. The rezipped file is put alongside the zip file (/Users/xxx/knime-workspace/testproject/data). The same behaviour on Windows. My question is, why is node download mapping knime://knime.workflow/data to another mount point location on disk as nodes Unzip and Zip Files? Did I miss to set a configuration setting somewhere or what? Please help. Thanks in advance.

knime:// protocol and mount point strange behaviour

ipazin December 18, 2020, 12:05pm 4

with KNIME version 4.3. there is Transfer Files node that is able to download files using relative path. Check out here for more:

Br,
Ivan

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