Unable to set pinning at local: Timeout

[hendriksteinhorst]

Hi, I'm pretty new to this topic so please forgive me if the solution to this is obvious. I have downloaded the latest version of the desktop ui for windows (0.21.0) and wanted to download and share the wikipedia en snapshot. From my understanding I have to open the cid bafybeiaysi4s6lnjev27ln5icwm6tueaw2vdykrtjkwiphwekaywqhcjze in the explorer and pin it. I did this and the download starts, but after a while (about 20 minutes) I get an error message "Unable to set pinning at local: TimeoutError: Request timed out". What can I do about this? Restarting the pinning helps, but I can't do this every 20 minutes for the next week or so. Any ideas?

edit: using the cli seems to work, so the timeout must somehow come from the UI app

[hacdias]

I think the Web UI has a timeout in case it takes too long, which doesn't necessarily mean that it does not work. For such a large dataset, I think the best way would be to use the CLI for now. You can run:

ipfs pin add -r --progress /ipfs/bafybeiaysi4s6lnjev27ln5icwm6tueaw2vdykrtjkwiphwekaywqhcjze

If you want to be able to see it in your Files page after, you can run:

ipfs files cp /ipfs/bafybeiaysi4s6lnjev27ln5icwm6tueaw2vdykrtjkwiphwekaywqhcjze /MyWikipedia

Or use the Files page directly. There is a button on the right top side "Import" -> "From IPFS".

I think may be addressed by #1919.

[ipfs-gui-bot]

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