Recursive download seems broken

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cloud

Research direction

Start by reproducing fs.download(rpath, lpath, recursive=True) against Google Cloud Storage and inspect the recursive download entry point and its path handling. Trace why a directory is treated as a file, then verify that recursive downloads complete without IsADirectoryError and place the remote contents at the local destination.

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Description

When running fs.download(rpath, lpath, recursive=True)
I now get the following error:
IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory:

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