General

Direct sharable links allow the sharing of data through a URL.

When you download data via a direct shareable link, it will download the data into a container (zip, tar or aar (Arcitecta archive)). After downloading the container you will have to unpack it.

Direct shareable links are a poor way to distribute big data because:

The data are packed in a container and so you need double the storage
If the process fails (very likely over a long time) you have to start over
We do not recommend direct shareable links for anything more than a few tens of GB as they are not robust.

Downloading

There are a variety of methods to download the data via the URL, but the simplest is to paste it into your browser and press return; this will activate a download process managed by the browser.

For more advanced users familiar with Unix command-line tools (which you might use in a script), such as curl or wget, here are some examples.

curl "https://mediaflux.researchsoftware.unimelb.edu.au/mflux/share.mfjp?_token=pkPfWMlGGoHZvroPbDNP112871145" -d browser=false -o DesktopTraining.zip

you must use the argument -d browser=false for this to function.
put the URL in double quotes as there may be characters in the URL that must be protected from the shell

wget -O DeskTopTraining.zip "https://mediaflux.vicnode.org.au/mflux/share.mfjp?_token=pkPfWMlGGoHZvroPbDNP112871145&browser=false"

If the embedded URL has a &filename attribute, it won't be used and you have to specify the -O <output file>.

Unpacking

You need to unpack the container to access the data

You can get the tool to unpack Arcitecta aar containers from our downloads page
Almost all operating systems support unpacking zip or tar files (either with double-click via graphical interfaces or command-line tools)
The container will be unpacked into a structure reflecting the original data.